An Initial Orthography And Lexicon For Emai An Edoid Language Of Nigeria
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An Initial Orthography And Lexicon For Emai An Edoid Language Of Nigeria
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Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
An Initial Orthography And Lexicon For Emai An Edoid Language Of Nigeria written by Ronald P. Schaefer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Bini language categories.
A Dictionary Of Emai
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Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
A Dictionary Of Emai written by Ronald P. Schaefer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with African languages categories.
A Grammar Of Emai
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Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-12-19
A Grammar Of Emai written by Ronald P. Schaefer 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 2016-12-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This reference grammar is the first ever description of West Africa’s Edoid language Emai. It incorporates narrative, lexical and grammatical field results over the last three decades. Treated are morphology, syntax and argument structure after an introductory phonology and orthographic overview highlighting grammatical and lexical tone. Individual chapters delineate noun and verb phrase structure as well as clause shape in discourse and clause combination. Noun inflection and derivation are detailed as is verb inflection in the context of tense, aspect and modality. Noun phrase character encompasses remnant noun classes, nominal modification types and pronoun forms followed by conjunction. Verb phrase features include complex predicates, both verbs in series and verb plus postverbal particle, functionally distinct copulas, double objects, and sentence complement types constrained by matrix verb. Also analyzed are preverbal and postverbal adverbials relative to information question types. Multi-clause constructions are profiled as to coding varieties across dependent clauses as well as precedence relations. A concluding chapter presents a sample narrative in orthographic form, interlinear gloss and English free translation.
A Grammar Of Emai
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Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
language : en
Publisher: ISSN
Release Date : 2017
A Grammar Of Emai written by Ronald P. Schaefer and has been published by ISSN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Edoid languages categories.
This grammar is the first description of Emai, an Edoid language of 25-35,000 villagers in southern Nigeria. It incorporates narrative, lexical and grammatical field results. Individual chapters delineate noun and verb phrases, clause character in discourse, clause combinations as well as tone functions. Prominently featured are complex predicates, functionally distinct copulas, double object constructions, and sentence complement types.
Language History And Linguistic Description In Africa
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Author : Ian Maddieson
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1998
Language History And Linguistic Description In Africa written by Ian Maddieson and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Foreign Language Study categories.
For more than a quarter of a century the Annual conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided a lively forum for the confrontation of ideas on theoretical linguistics with descriptive data on African languages.
The Linguistic Typology And Representation Of African Languages
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Author : John M. Mugane
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 2003
The Linguistic Typology And Representation Of African Languages written by John M. Mugane and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Foreign Language Study categories.
For the thirty-third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired and used. This volume represents a selection of 25 peer-reviewed papers from the 33rd AWAL held in March 2002 at Ohio University in Athens. The papers cover language acquisition, syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, as well as language use and function in Africa.
The Linguistics Of Literacy
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Author : Pamela Downing
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1992
The Linguistics Of Literacy written by Pamela Downing and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Psychology categories.
This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which cluster around three of the major themes that developed during the conference: the linguistic differences between written and spoken genres, the relationship between orthographic systems and phonology, and the psychology of orthography. The volume concludes with a solicited paper by Walter J. Ong which draws together the various strands considered in the other sections of the book and addresses the broader question of the social and psychological consequences of literacy.
The Expression Of Information Structure
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Author : Ines Fiedler
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2010-03-24
The Expression Of Information Structure written by Ines Fiedler and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book analyzes the different patterns found across subsaharan Africa to express information structure. Based on languages from all four African language phyla, it documents the great diversity of linguistic means used to encode information-structural phenomena and is therefore highly relevant for some of the most pertinent questions in modern linguistic theory. The special contribution of this volume is the perspective on a variety of information-structurally related phenomena which go far beyond classical notions such as focus and topic. Detailed investigations are dedicated to so far less discussed focal subcategories, like focus on verbal operators or the thetic-categorical distinction. Finally, the information-structural configuration of unmarked, canonical sentence structures is recognized. The papers provide evidence that the formal means to encode information-structural categories range from means such as morphological markers or syntactic operations, famous in linguistics, to less well-known strategies, such as defocalization rather than focalization.
Studies In Ditransitive Constructions
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Author : Andrej Malchukov
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-12-23
Studies In Ditransitive Constructions written by Andrej Malchukov 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 2010-12-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive constructions held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) in 2007. It opens with the editors' survey article providing an overview of cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, followed by the questionnaire on ditransitive constructions, compiled by the editors in order to elicit various properties of these patterns. The editors' overview discusses formal properties of ditransitive constructions as well as behavioral (or syntactic) and lexical properties (i.e., the extension of ditransitive constructions across different verb classes). The volume includes 23 contributions describing properties of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world, written by leading experts. Care has been taken that the contributions to the volume will be representative of structural, geographic and genealogical diversity in the domain of ditransitive constructions. Thus the present volume provides a unique source of information on typological diversity of ditransitive constructions. It is expected that it will be of central interest to all scholars and advanced students of linguistics, especially to those working in the field of language typology and comparative syntax.
Ideophones
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Author : Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Ideophones written by Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language the language register, where gestures are used rather than written language.