Author : Anthony Jukes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004412662
The book describes the Makasar language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, drawing heavily on three centuries of literary sources. Makasarese is notable as head–marking and ergative/absolutive in alignment, and its large number of geminate and pre–glottalised consonants.
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Makasar language
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Author : Alexander Adelaar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2024-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192534262
This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive account of the historical relations, typological diversity, and varied sociolinguistic issues that characterize this group of languages, including current debates in their prehistories and descriptive priorities for future study. The book is divided into four parts. Part I deals with historical linguistics, including discussion of human genetics, archaeology, and cultural history. Chapters in Part II explore language contact between Malayo-Polynesian and unrelated languages, as well as sociolinguistic issues such as multilingualism, language policy, and language endangerment. Part III provides detailed overviews of the different groupings of Malayo-Polynesian languages, while Part IV offers in-depth studies of important typological features across the whole linguistic area. The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in Austronesian languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
Author : Fernando Zuniga
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1297 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110731096
This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).
Author : Alessandra Barotto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027254885
This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches that grammar is shaped by discourse use, systematic typological cross-linguistic investigations on discourse phenomena are relatively rare. This volume aims at bridging this gap, by integrating different linguistic subfields, such as discourse analysis, pragmatics, and typology. The contributions, both theoretically and empirically oriented, focus on a broad variety of discourse phenomena (ranging from discourse markers to discourse function of grammatical markers, to strategies that manage the discourse and information flow) while adopting a typological perspective and considering typologically distant languages.
Author : J. D. Bowen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111418820
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Author : Robert Goh
Publisher : Truth Limited
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
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This English > Makasar lexicon is based on the 200+ language 8,000 entry World Languages Dictionary CD of 2007 which was subsequently lodged in national libraries across the world. The corresponding Chinese lexicon has a vocabulary of 2,429 characters, 95% of which are in the primary group of 3,500 general standard Chinese characters issued by China's Ministry of Education in 2013.
Author : Charles Campbell Macknight
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Bugis language
ISBN : 9780977598328
Author : Edward Balfour
Publisher :
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Yoshiko Matsumoto
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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