Coordinating Conjunctions In Sinitic Languages And Beyond
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Coordinating Conjunctions In Sinitic Languages
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Author : Kevin Kin-wing Chan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-12-31
Coordinating Conjunctions In Sinitic Languages written by Kevin Kin-wing Chan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The book is a comprehensive typological study of coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages and other languages worldwide, focusing on the grammaticalization pathways through which conjunctions emerge. Utilizing an extensive database of coordinating conjunctions, including first-hand data from 234 Chinese dialects and 45 non-Sinitic languages, as well as 830 sets of second-hand data, this research aims to reconstruct the primary grammaticalization paths of coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages while making typological generalizations and classifications. The study contributes to the understanding of how coordinating conjunctions develop in various languages and sheds light on the typological patterns that emerge across languages.
Coordinating Conjunctions In Sinitic Languages And Beyond
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Author : Kevin Kin Wing Chan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Coordinating Conjunctions In Sinitic Languages And Beyond written by Kevin Kin Wing Chan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Coordinating Constructions
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Author : Martin Haspelmath
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2004-07-29
Coordinating Constructions written by Martin Haspelmath 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 2004-07-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide. This volume consists of a number of general studies, as well as fourteen case studies of coordinating constructions in languages or groups of languages: Africa (Iraqw, Fongbe, Hausa), the Caucasus (Daghestanian, Tsakhur, Chechen), the Middle East (Persian and other Western Iranian languages), Southeast Asia (Lai, Karen, Indonesian), the Pacific (Lavukaleve, Oceanic, Nêlêmwa), and the Americas (Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan). A detailed introductory chapter summarizes the main results of the volume and situates them in the context of other relevant current research.
Historical Change In Serial Verb Constructions
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Author : Carol Lord
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Historical Change In Serial Verb Constructions written by Carol Lord 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 1993-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change.The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticalization process is shown to result in the development of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. Strong parallels across languages are found in the meanings of the verbs that become defective and in the functions they come to mark. The changes are documented in detail, with examples from a number of languages illustrating the effect of the changes on typology and word order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and aspect, and the relevance of notions such as discourse topic, foreground and transitivity.With respect to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the author has taken a relatively nonpartisan approach, and the discussion is accessible to students of language as well as of interest to theoreticians.
A Grammar Of Qiang
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Author : Randy J. LaPolla
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-08-22
A Grammar Of Qiang written by Randy J. LaPolla 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 book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the two major branches of Sino-Tibetan). The dialect presented in the book is the Northern Qiang variety spoken in Ronghong Village, Yadu Township, Chibusu District, Mao County. This book, the first book-length description of the Qiang language in English, is the result of many years of work on the language, and is as typologically comprehensive as possible. It includes not only the reference grammar, but also an ethnological overview, several fully analyzed texts (mostly traditional stories), and an annotated glossary. The language is verb final, agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), and has both head-marking and dependent marking morphology. The phonology of Qiang is quite complex, with 39 consonants at seven points of articulation, plus complex consonant clusters, both in initial and final position, as well as vowel harmony, vowel length distinctions, and a set of retroflexed vowels. The grammar also is complex, with a paradigm of eight direction marking verbal prefixes, and two paradigms for person marking, one for actor, one for non-actor, and a variety of other verbal prefixes and suffixes, as well as definite and number marking on nouns. Noun phrases take classifiers and relational pospositions as well.
Encyclopedia Of Chinese Language And Linguistics 5 Volumes
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Author : Rint Sybesma
language : en
Publisher: Brill
Release Date : 2016-11-30
Encyclopedia Of Chinese Language And Linguistics 5 Volumes written by Rint Sybesma and has been published by Brill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-30 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics is the new reference work on all aspects of the languages of China and China s linguistic traditions, written and edited by the foremost scholars in the field."
Sino Tibetan
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Author : Paul K. Benedict
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1972
Sino Tibetan written by Paul K. Benedict and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Sino-Tibetan languages categories.
The Routledge Encyclopedia Of The Chinese Language
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Author : Chan Sin-Wai
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14
The Routledge Encyclopedia Of The Chinese Language written by Chan Sin-Wai and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is an invaluable resource for language learners and linguists of Chinese worldwide, those interested readers of Chinese literature and cultures, and scholars in Chinese studies. Featuring the research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language by a number of eminent academics in the field, this volume will meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of anyone interested in the Chinese language: from Sinologists to Chinese linguists, as well as teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language. The encyclopedia explores a range of topics: from research on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, to Chinese language acquisition, to the language of the mass media. This reference offers a guide to shifts over time in thinking about the Chinese language as well as providing an overview of contemporary themes, debates and research interests. The editors and contributors are assisted by an editorial board comprised of the best and most experienced sinologists world-wide. The reference includes an introduction, written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.
Language At Large
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Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-07-27
Language At Large written by Alexandra Aikhenvald and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon, highlighting their expertise in various fields of linguistics. The first part focusses on linguistic typology, covering case markers used on verbs, argument-determined constructions, unusual meanings of causatives, the semantic basis for a typology, word-class-changing derivations, speech reports and semi-direct speech. The second part concentrates on documentation and analysis of previously undescribed languages, from South America and Indigenous Australia. The third part addresses a variety of issues in grammar and lexicography of English. This includes pronouns with transferred reference, comparative constructions, features of the noun phrase, and the discussion of 'twice'. The treatment of Australian Aboriginal words in dictionaries is discussed in the final chapter.
The Domain Of Language
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Author : Michael D. Fortescue
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2002
The Domain Of Language written by Michael D. Fortescue and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception of Linguistics as the domain of dusty schoolroom grammar, where proponents of one theoretical orientation or the other spend their brief breaks in the playground bashing the others over the head with their favorite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and, worse still, lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. The purpose is to show that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. The subject is introduced in an unconventional way as a kind of fable with an historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a commentary on the state of the discipline today.