New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study
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New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study Language Culture Society And The Modern World 2 V Set
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Author : Stephen Adolphe Wurm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study Language Culture Society And The Modern World 2 V Set written by Stephen Adolphe Wurm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Austronesian languages categories.
New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study Papuan Languages And The New Guinea Linguistic Scene
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Author : Stephen Adolphe Wurm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study Papuan Languages And The New Guinea Linguistic Scene written by Stephen Adolphe Wurm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Austronesian languages categories.
New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study
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Release Date : 1977
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The Alor Pantar Languages
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Author : Marian Klamer
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2017-06-23
The Alor Pantar Languages written by Marian Klamer 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 2017-06-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Pa\-puan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern Indonesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are under pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national language, Indonesian. This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of this interesting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features, such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument on the verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphological alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence of quinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involving an elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinship systems. Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not exhibit clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffix subject indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity in their pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-final syntactic profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages share with Papuan languages spoken in other regions. While all of them show some traces of contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrowing from Austronesian has not been intense, and contact with Malay and Indonesian is a relatively recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantar region. This is the second edition of the volume that was originally published in 2014. In this edition, typographical errors have been corrected, small textual improvements have been implemented, broken URL links repaired or removed, and references updated. The overall content of the chapters has not been changed.
New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study Language Culture Society And The Modern World 2 V Set
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Author : Stephen Adolphe Wurm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study Language Culture Society And The Modern World 2 V Set written by Stephen Adolphe Wurm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Austronesian languages categories.
Encyclopedia Of Language And Linguistics
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language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2005-11-24
Encyclopedia Of Language And Linguistics written by and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Language Structure And Environment
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Author : Rik De Busser
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2015-06-15
Language Structure And Environment written by Rik De Busser 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 2015-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the contributors explain in a number of detailed case studies how specific cultural, societal, geographical, evolutionary and meta-linguistic pressures determine the development of specific grammatical features and the global structure of a varied selection of languages. This is a work of meticulous scholarship at the forefront of a burgeoning field of linguistics.
Language Isolates
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Author : Lyle Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Language Isolates written by Lyle Campbell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language. Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.
Genes Language Culture History In The Southwest Pacific
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Author : Jonathan S. Friedlaender
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-04-19
Genes Language Culture History In The Southwest Pacific written by Jonathan S. Friedlaender 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 2007-04-19 with History categories.
The broad arc of islands north of Australia that extends from Indonesia east towards the central Pacific is home to a set of human populations whose concentration of diversity is unequaled elsewhere. Approximately 20% of the worlds languages are spoken here, and the biological and genetic heterogeneity among the groups is extraordinary. Anthropologist W.W. Howells once declared diversity in the region so Protean as to defy analysis. However, this book can now claim considerable success in describing and understanding the origins of the genetic and linguistic variation there.In order to cut through this biological knot, the authors have applied a comprehensive battery of genetic analyses to an intensively sampled set of populations, and have subjected these and complementary linguistic data to a variety of phylogenetic analyses. This has revealed a number of heretofore unknown ancient Pleistocene genetic variants that are only found in these island populations, and has also identified the genetic footprints of more recent migrants from Southeast Asia who were the ancestors of the Polynesians. The book lays out the very complex structure of the variation within and among the islands in this relatively small region, and a number of explanatory models are tested to see which best account for the observed pattern of genetic variation here. The results suggest that a number of commonly used models of evolutionary divergence are overly simple in their assumptions, and that often human diversity has accumulated in very complex ways.
Atlas Of Languages Of Intercultural Communication In The Pacific Asia And The Americas
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Author : Stephen A. Wurm
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-02-11
Atlas Of Languages Of Intercultural Communication In The Pacific Asia And The Americas written by Stephen A. Wurm 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 2011-02-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.