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A Grammar Of Qaqet
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Author : Birgit Hellwig
language : en
Publisher: ISSN
Release Date : 2020-12-07
A Grammar Of Qaqet written by Birgit Hellwig and has been published by ISSN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This grammar is a description of Qaqet, a non-Austronesian language spoken in the interior of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the small Baining language family, and it is included among the geographically-defined East Papu
A Grammar Of Qaqet
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Author : Birgit Hellwig
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-04-15
A Grammar Of Qaqet written by Birgit Hellwig 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 2019-04-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This grammar is a first detailed description of Qaqet, a non-Austronesian language spoken in the mountainous interior of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Qaqet belongs to the small Baining language family (comprising six languages), but its wider genetic affiliations remain unclear. It is included among the geographically-defined East Papuan languages. The grammar presents a synchronic description of the language. From a language family perspective, the Baining languages are structurally fairly similar, but there are considerable differences in detail that point to different language-internal developments and grammaticalization paths. From an East Papuan and areal perspective, Qaqet exhibits both typical East Papuan features (e.g., nominal classification, possessor/possessed order, highly compositional lexicon) as well as areal features (e.g., AVO ~ SV constituent order, articles and determiners, prepositions). The description is based on primary data collected during fieldwork (from 2011 onwards), including both natural and elicited data. The description thereby provides new analyses and insights that are relevant to our understanding of the genetic and areal relationships in this region.
Child Directed Speech In Qaqet
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Author : Henrike Frye
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2022-08-25
Child Directed Speech In Qaqet written by Henrike Frye and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Qaqet is a non-Austronesian language, spoken by about 15,000 people in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In the remote inland, children acquire Qaqet as their first language. Much of what we know about child‑directed speech (CDS) stems from children living in middle‑class, urban, industrialised contexts. This book combines evidence from different methods, showing that the features typical for speech to children in such contexts are also found in Qaqet CDS. Preliminary insights from naturalistic audio recordings suggest that Qaqet children are infrequently addressed directly. In interviews, Qaqet caregivers express the view that children ‘pick up’ the language on their own. Still, they have clear ideas about how to talk to children in a way that makes it easier for them to understand what is said. In order to compare adult- and child-directed speech in Qaqet, 20 retellings of a film have been analysed, half of them told to adults and half to children. The data show that talk directed to children differs from talk directed to adults for several features, among them utterance type, mean length of utterance, amount of hesitations and intonation. Despite this clear tendency, there seems to be a cut-off point of around 40 months of age for several of those features from which the talk directed to children becomes more like the talk directed to adults.
A Grammar Of Kalamang
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Author : Eline Visser
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
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A Grammar Of Kalamang written by Eline Visser 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 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast of Bomberai Peninsula. This work is the first comprehensive grammar of a Papuan language in the Bomberai area. It is based on eleven months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a corpus of more than 15 hours of spoken Kalamang recorded and transcribed between 2015 and 2019. This grammar covers a wide range of topics beyond a phonological and morphosyntactic description, including prosody, narrative styles, and information structure. More than 1000 examples illustrate the analyses, and are where possible taken from naturalistic spoken Kalamang. The descriptive approach in this grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, but is not driven by any specific school of thought. Comparison to other West Bomberai or eastern Indonesian languages is taken into account whenever it is deemed helpful. Kalamang has several typologically interesting features, such as unpredictable stress, minimalistic give-constructions consisting of just two pronouns, aspectual markers that follow the subject, and the NP and predicate – rather than the noun and verb – as important domains of attachment. This grammar is accompanied by an openly accessible archive of linguistic and cultural material and a dictionary with 2700 lemmas. It serves as a document of one of the world's many endangered languages.
Special Onymic Grammar In Typological Perspective
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Author : Thomas Stolz
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-12-04
Special Onymic Grammar In Typological Perspective written by Thomas Stolz 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 2023-12-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
For the first time, proper names are made the topic of a cross-linguistic account of morphosyntactic properties which formally distinguish place names, personal names, and common nouns. It is shown that the behaviour of place names and personal names in morphology and syntax frequently disagrees with the rules established for other word classes independent of the language’s genetic affiliation, grammatical structure, and geographic location. Place names and personal names each boast a grammar of their own. They are candidates for the status of a distinct word class. Their special grammar comes frequently to the fore in the domain of spatial and possessive relations. This fact is explained with reference to functional notions.
Caused Accompanied Motion
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Author : Anna Margetts
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-05-15
Caused Accompanied Motion written by Anna Margetts and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the Americas, Austronesia and Papua. The chapters investigate such events on the basis of spoken language corpora of endangered, underdescribed languages and in this way the volume showcases the importance of documentary linguistics for linguistic typology. The semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion shows considerable crosslinguistic variation in how meaning components are conflated within single lexemes or distributed across morphemes or clauses. The volume presents a typology of common patterns and constraints in the linguistic expression of these events. The study of crosslinguistic event encoding provided in this volume contributes to our understanding of the nature, extent and limits of linguistic and cognitive diversity.
Proper Names Versus Common Nouns
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Author : Javier Caro Reina
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-11-07
Proper Names Versus Common Nouns written by Javier Caro Reina 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 2022-11-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and syntactic/distributional differences between proper names and common nouns in less known (Non)-Indo-European languages. This volume brings together contributions which explore morphosyntactic phenomena such as case marking, gender assignment rules, definiteness marking, and possessive constructions from a synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspective. The languages surveyed include Austronesian languages, Basque, English, German, Hebrew, and Romance languages. The volume contributes to a better understanding not only of the contrasts between proper names and common nouns, but also of formal contrasts between different proper name classes such as personal names, place names, and others.
A Grammar Of The Arabic Language
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Author : R. Sterling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-02
A Grammar Of The Arabic Language written by R. Sterling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Published in 1904, this book provides accessible Arabic language structure and grammar for a universal readership.
A Grammar Of The Arabic Language
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Author : Carl Paul Caspari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
A Grammar Of The Arabic Language written by Carl Paul Caspari and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with Arabic language categories.
A Grammar Of The Arabic Language
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Author : Edward Henry Palmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
A Grammar Of The Arabic Language written by Edward Henry Palmer 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.