Proto Central Pacific Ergativity
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Proto Central Pacific Ergativity
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Author : Ritsuko Kikusawa
language : en
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
Release Date : 2002
Proto Central Pacific Ergativity written by Ritsuko Kikusawa and has been published by Pacific Linguistics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
Proto Central Pacific Ergativity
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Author : Ritsuko Kikusawa
language : en
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
Release Date : 2002
Proto Central Pacific Ergativity written by Ritsuko Kikusawa and has been published by Pacific Linguistics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
Reconstructing The Actancy Systems Of Proto Central Pacific And Its Daughter Languages
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Author : Ritsuko Kikusawa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Reconstructing The Actancy Systems Of Proto Central Pacific And Its Daughter Languages written by Ritsuko Kikusawa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Proto-Oceanic language categories.
Reconstructing Syntax
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-06-15
Reconstructing Syntax written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we’ll eat the pudding.” This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax.
The Oxford Handbook Of Ergativity
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Author : Jessica Coon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-15
The Oxford Handbook Of Ergativity written by Jessica Coon 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 2017-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects. This pattern differs markedly from nominative/accusative marking whereby transitive and intransitive subjects are treated as one grammatical class, to the exclusion of direct objects. While ergativity is sometimes referred to as a typological characteristic of languages, research on the phenomenon has shown that languages do not fall clearly into one category or the other and that ergative characteristics are not consistent across languages. Chapters in this volume look at approaches to ergativity within generative, typological, and functional paradigms, as well as approaches to the core morphosyntactic building blocks of an ergative construction; related constructions such as the anti-passive; related properties such as split ergativity and word order; and extensions and permutations of ergativity, including nominalizations and voice systems. The volume also includes results from experimental investigations of ergativity, a relatively new area of research. A wide variety of languages are represented, both in the theoretical chapters and in the 16 case studies that are more descriptive in nature, attesting to both the pervasiveness and diversity of ergative patterns.
The Cambridge History Of The Pacific Ocean Volume 1 The Pacific Ocean To 1800
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Author : Ryan Tucker Jones
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-31
The Cambridge History Of The Pacific Ocean Volume 1 The Pacific Ocean To 1800 written by Ryan Tucker Jones 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 2022-12-31 with History categories.
Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a wide-ranging survey of Pacific history to 1800. It focuses on varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history, as well as tracing the early exploration and colonization of the Pacific, the evolution of Indigenous maritime cultures after colonization, and the disruptive arrival of Europeans. Bringing together a diversity of subjects and viewpoints, this volume introduces a broad variety of topics, engaging fully with emerging environmental and political conflicts over Pacific Ocean spaces. These essays emphasize the impact of the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific to the present day.
Historical Linguistics 2001
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Author : Barry J. Blake
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Historical Linguistics 2001 written by Barry J. Blake 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 2003-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of linguistics, particularly morpho-syntax.
The Pacific Region
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Author : Jan Goggans
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2004-12-30
The Pacific Region written by Jan Goggans and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-30 with Social Science categories.
Robert Penn Warren once wrote West is where we all plan to go some day, and indeed, images of the westernmost United States provide a mythic horizon to American cultural landscape. While the five states (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawai'i) which touch Pacific waters do share commonalities within the history of westward expansion, the peoples who settled the region—and the indigenous peoples they encountered—have created spheres of culture that defy simple categorization. This wide-ranging reference volume explores the marvelously eclectic cultures that define the Pacific region. From the music and fashion of the Pacific northwest to the film industry and surfing subcultures of southern California, from the vast expanses of the Alaskan wilderness to the schisms between native and tourist culture in Hawa'ii, this unprecedented reference provides a detailed and fascinating look at American regionalism along the Pacific Rim. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures is the first rigorous reference collection on the many ways in which American identity has been defined by its regions and its people. Each of its eight regional volumes presents thoroughly researched narrative chapters on Architecture; Art; Ecology & Environment; Ethnicity; Fashion; Film & Theater; Folklore; Food; Language; Literature; Music; Religion; and Sports & Recreation. Each book also includes a volume-specific introduction, as well as a series foreword by noted regional scholar and former National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman William Ferris, who served as consulting editor for this encyclopedia.
The Rise And Fall Of Ergativity In Aramaic
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Author : Eleanor Coghill
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Rise And Fall Of Ergativity In Aramaic written by Eleanor Coghill 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 2016 with History categories.
This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented history. Eastern Aramaic dialects first developed tense-conditioned ergative aligment in the perfect, which later developed into a past perfective. However, while some modern dialects preserve a degree of ergative aligment, it has been eroded by movement towards semantic/Split-S alignment and by the use of separate marking for the patient, and some dialects have lost ergative alignment altogether. These dialects therefore show an entire cycle of alignment change, something which had previously been considered unlikely. Eleanor Coghill examines evidence from ancient Aramaic texts, recent dialectal documentation, and cross-linguistic parallels to provide an account of the pathways through which this alignment change took place. She argues that what became the ergative construction was originally limited mostly to verbs with an experiencer role, such as 'see' and 'hear', which could encode the experiencer with a dative. While this dative-experiencer scenario shows some formal similarities with other proposed explanations for alignment change, the data analysed in this book show that it is clearly distinct. The book draws important theoretical conclusions on the development of tense-conditioned alignment cross-linguistically, and provides a valuable basis for further research.
The Lexicon Of Proto Oceanic The Physical Environment
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Author : Malcolm D. Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Lexicon Of Proto Oceanic The Physical Environment written by Malcolm D. Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Ethnology categories.