Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
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Page : 934 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Linguistic geography
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Page : 934 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Linguistic geography
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004350519
Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia blends insights from sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics and historical-comparative linguistics to shed new light on regional Tibeto-Burman language varieties and their relationships across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. The approach is inspired by leading Tibeto-Burmanist, David Bradley, to whom the book is dedicated. The volume includes twelve original research essays written by eleven Tibeto-Burmanists drawing on first-hand field research in five countries to explore Tibeto-Burman languages descended from seven internal sub-branches. Following two introductory chapters, each contribution is focused on a specific Tibeto-Burman language or sub-branch, collectively contributing to the literature on language identification, language documentation, typological analysis, historical-comparative classification, linguistic theory, and language endangerment research with new analyses, state-of-the-art summaries and contemporary applications.
Author : Simeon Floyd
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027265542
Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative sentences. This person sensitivity reflects the fact that speakers generally know most about their own affairs, while in questions this epistemic authority typically shifts to the addressee. First described for Tibeto-Burman languages, egophoric-like patterns have now been documented in a number of other regions around the world, including languages of Western China, the Andean region of South America, the Caucasus, Papua New Guinea, and elsewhere. This book is a first attempt to place detailed descriptions of this understudied grammatical category side by side and to add to the cross-linguistic picture of how ideas of self and other are encoded and projected in language. The diverse but conceptually related egophoric phenomena described in its chapters provide fascinating case studies for how structural patterns in morphosyntax are forged under intersubjective, interactional pressures as we link elements of our speech to our speech situation.
Author : Austin Hale
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311082549X
No detailed description available for "Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages".
Author : Verena Reichle
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1981
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Tibeto-Burman languages
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Author : Nathan Hill
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004232028
While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model.
Author : Alfons Weidert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027235481
This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects. This comparative study of tonology represents a significant contribution not only to the historical-comparative study of Tibeto-Burman, but also to the larger field of linguistic theory, especially now that the subject increasingly begins to be approached along diachronic lines. With this in mind, it is hoped that this work will provoke future research in the field.
Author : James A. Matisoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
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ISBN : 0520098439
Author : William S.-Y. Wang
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Page : 793 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199856338
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.