Ancestral grammar
Author : Magda Graniela-Rodríguez
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
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Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity
Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199761395
Book Description
This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. Since the "ethnic revival" of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the connection between these fundamental aspects of our identity. Joshua Fishman has commissioned over 25 previously unpublished papers on every facet of the subject. This volume is interdisciplinary and the contributors are all distinguished figures in their fields. After each chapter Fishman pulls together the various views that have been expressed and shows how they differ and how they are alike. The volume is useful as a scholarly reference, a resource for the lay reader, and can also be used as a text in ethnicity courses.
On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar
Author : Koen Bostoen
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961104069
Book Description
This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s biggest phylum, it is still Africa’s biggest language family. This edited volume attempts to retrieve the phonology, morphology and syntax used by the earliest Bantu speakers to communicate with each other, discusses methods to do so, and looks at issues raised by these academic endeavours. It is a collective effort involving a fine mix of junior and senior scholars representing several generations of expert historical-comparative Bantu research. It is the first systematic approach to Proto-Bantu grammar since Meeussen’s Bantu Grammatical Reconstructions (1967). Based on new bodies of evidence from the last five decades, most notably from northwestern Bantu languages, this book considerably transforms our understanding of Proto-Bantu grammar and offers new methodological approaches to Bantu grammatical reconstruction.
A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages
Author : Robert Caldwell
Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Dravidian languages
ISBN :
Book Description
The Mixed Language Debate
Author : Yaron Matras
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110197243
Book Description
Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages, often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as genetic classification. This collection of articles is devoted to the theoretical and empirical controversies that surround the study of Mixed Languages. Issues include definitions and prototypes, similarities and differences to other contact languages such as pidgins and creoles, the role of codeswitching in the emergence of Mixed Languages, the role of deliberate and conscious mixing, the question of the existence of a Mixed Language continuum, and the position of Mixed Languages in general models of language change and contact-induced change in particular. An introductory chapter surveys the current study of Mixed Languages. Contributors include leading historical linguists, contact linguists and typologists, among them Carol Myers-Scotton, Sarah Grey Thomason,William Croft, Thomas Stolz, Maarten Mous, Ad Backus, Evgeniy Golovko, Peter Bakker, Yaron Matras.
American Indian English
Author : William Leap
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1607811987
Book Description
American Indian English documents and examines the diversity of English in American Indian speech communities. It presents a convincing case for the fundamental influence of ancestral American Indian languages and cultures on spoken and written expression in different Indian English codes. A distillation of over twenty years' research, this pioneering work explores the linguistic and sociolinguistic characteristics of English language use among members of Navajo, Hopi, Mojave, Ute, Tsimshian, Kotzebue, Ponca, Pima, Lakota, Cheyenne, Laguna, Santa Ana, Isleta, Chilcotin, Seminole, Cherokee, and other American Indian tribes. American Indian English fills numerous gaps in existing studies of language histories, Indian student school experience, Indian-white contact, and "acculturation." Unlike contemporary studies on schooling, ethnicity, empowerment, and educational failure, American Indian English avoids postmodernist jargon and discourse strategies in favor of direct description and commentary. Data are derived from conditions of real-life experience faced by speakers of Indian English in various English-speaking settings. This practical focus enhances the book's accessibility to Indian educators and community-based teachers, as well as non-Indian academics.
New Perspectives on Mixed Languages
Author : Maria Mazzoli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501511149
Book Description
A growing number of language varieties with diverse backgrounds and structural typologies have been identified as mixed. However, the debate on the status of many varieties and even on the existence of the category of “mixed languages” continues still today. This volume examines the current state of the theoretical and empirical debate on mixed languages and presents new advances from a diverse set of mixed language varieties. These cover well-known mixed languages, such as Media Lengua, Michif, Gurindji Kriol, and Kallawaya, and varieties whose classification is still debated, such as Reo Rapa, Kumzari, Jopará, and Wutun. The contributions deal with different aspects of mixed languages, including descriptive approaches to their current status and origins, theoretical discussions on the language contact processes in them, and analysis of different types of language mixing practices. This book contributes to the current debate on the existence of the mixed language category, shedding more light onto this fascinating group of languages and the contact processes that shape them.
Getting Real About Race
Author : Stephanie M. McClure
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1544354908
Book Description
Getting Real About Race is an edited collection of short essays that address the most common stereotypes and misconceptions about race held by students, and by many in the United States, in general. Key Features Each essay concludes with suggested sources including videos, websites, books, and/or articles that instructors can choose to assign as additional readings on a topic. Essays also end with questions for discussion that allow students to move from the “what” (knowledge) to the “so what” (implications) of race in their own lives. In this spirit, the authors include suggested “Reaching Across the Color Line” activities at the end of each essay, allowing students to apply their new knowledge on the topic in a unique or creative way. Current topics students want to discuss are brought up through the text, making it easier for the instructor to deal with these topics in an open classroom environment.
Origins of Semiosis
Author : Winfried Nöth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110877503
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Author : Philipp Strazny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1275 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135455228
Book Description
Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader. Containing over 500 alphabetically arranged entries and an expansive glossary by a team of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Linguistics explores the varied perspectives, figures, and methodologies that make up the field.
