Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Indians of Mexico
ISBN :
VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste: Without special title
Author : Zarina Estrada Fernández
Publisher : USON
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789706893000
Book Description
Papers primarily concerning linguistics of Mexican and Central American Indian languages; some papers deal with Indian languages of other areas, e.g., Argentina and Venezuela, and with Spanish, English, and Australian languages.
Tone and Inflection
Author : Enrique L. Palancar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110450364
Book Description
Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and this book is about a bit of both. The contributions to this volume study possible and sometimes complex ways in which the tones of a language engage in the expression of grammatical categories. There is a widespread conception that tone is a lexical phenomenon only. This is partly a consequence of the main interest in tone coming from phonology, while the main interest in inflection has stemmed from segmental morphology. Similarly, textbooks on inflection and textbooks on tone give very few examples of the inflectional use of tone, and such examples are often the same ones or too similar. This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the link between tone and inflection by showing that there is more to tone than meets the eye. The book includes general chapters as well as case studies on lesser known languages of Asia, Africa and Papua New Guinea, with a special focus on the Oto-Manguean languages, a large and diverse linguistic stock of Mexico that inspired Kenneth Pike’s 1948 seminal work on tone. Most of the contributions to this volume provide first-hand data from recent fieldwork that stems from important language documentation activities.
Commands
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192524739
Book Description
This book focuses on the form and the function of commands—directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders—from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the interrelationship of these speech acts with cultural stereotypes and practices, as well as their origins and development, especially in the light of language contact. The volume begins with an introduction outlining the marking and the meaning of imperatives and other ways of expressing commands and directives. Each of the chapters that follow offers an in-depth analysis of commands in a particular language. These analyses are cast in terms of 'basic linguistic theory'—a cumulative typological functional framework—and the chapters are arranged and structured in a way that allows useful comparison between them. The languages investigated include Quechua, Japanese, Lao, Aguaruna and Ashaninka Satipo (both from Peru), Dyirbal (from Australia), Zenzontepec Chatino (from Mexico), Nungon, Tayatuk, and Karawari (from Papua New Guinea), Korowai (from West Papua), Wolaitta (from Ethiopia), and Northern Paiute (a native language of the United States).
VII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste
Author : Isabel Barreras Aguilar
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Book Description
Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond
Author : Karen Dakin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027265712
Book Description
Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data from living and/or extinct Mesoamerican languages (from the Mayan, Uto-Aztecan, Totonac-Tepehuan and Otomanguean groups), neighboring non-Mesoamerican languages (Apachean, Arawakan, Andean languages), as well as Spanish. Language-contact effects in these diverse languages and language groups are typically analyzed by different subfields of linguistics that do not necessarily interact with one another. It is hoped that this volume, which contains works from different scholarly traditions that represent a variety of approaches to the study of language contact, will contribute to the lessening of this compartmentalization. The volume is relevant to researchers of language contact and contact-induced change and to anyone interested both in the historical development and present features of indigenous languages of the Americas and Latin American Spanish.
Valence Changes in Zapotec
Author : Natalie Operstein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027267782
Book Description
Zapotec languages present a wide range of lexical, morphological, phonological, and syntactic means of indicating valence changes. Despite their significant theoretical interest, detailed descriptions of valence-changing phenomena in Zapotec are rare, comparative studies are practically non-existent, and Zapotec contributions to the general typology of valence-changing phenomena still remain largely untapped. The present volume addresses this imbalance by being the first to explore Zapotec valence-changing constructions in depth, and to highlight their broad comparative, typological, and theoretical significance. This book contains both write-ups of contributions to the Special Session on Valence-Changing Devices in Zapotecan (annual meeting of SSILA, 2012) and specially commissioned chapters. It will be of interest to Zapotecanists, Otomangueanists, Mesoamericanists, typologists, morphologists, syntacticians, semanticians, and general linguists with an interest in valence-changing phenomena, and may also be used as supplementary reading in field methods and typology courses.
The Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America
Author : Søren Wichmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2024-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110421763
Book Description
The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser known languages, also including sign languages. The volume moreover features overviews of recent research on topics such as language acquisition and the expression of spatial orientation across languages of the region.
Multiple Object Constructions in P’orhépecha
Author : Alejandra Capistrán
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004288872
Book Description
In Multiple Object Constructions in P’orhépecha, Capistrán offers a detailed description of double and triple object clauses in P’orhépecha, a Mesoamerican isolate with a case system lacking an accusative-dative distinction. Regarding argument realization, Capistrán discusses alternating constructions and a construction split triggered by the person hierarchy. Valence-affecting operations—applicative, causative/instrumental and part-whole lexical suffixes—are examined, highlighting the person features of applicative suffixes and the complex part-whole morphology. Capistrán’s analysis demonstrates that in P’orhépecha most object coding properties show a neutral pattern, while all behavioral properties present asymmetries that shape a secundative pattern or PO/SO alignment. Capistrán argues that the strong tendency in P’orhépecha to determine PO selection according to a thematic ranking helps explain the (un)grammaticality of tritransitive constructions.
Constituency and convergence in the Americas
Author : Adam J.R. Tallman
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2024-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961104379
Book Description
This volume brings together studies on morphosyntactic and phonological constituency from a host of languages across the Americas. The study expands on previous multivariate typological work on phonological domains by simultaneously coding the results of morphosyntactic constituency tests. The descriptions are geared towards developing a typology of constituency and linguistic levels in both morphosyntactic and phonological domains. The multivariate approach adopted in this volume deconstructs constituency tests and phonological domains into cross-linguistically comparable variables applying and extending autotypology method to the domain of constituent structure. Current methodologies for establishing constituents have been criticized for containing an in-built selection bias, where the results and interpretation of tests are chosen or sampled in such a fashion that specific analyses are prejudged to be correct or false in a non-rigorous fashion. The papers of this volume develop novel methodology for reporting and coding constituency variables for language description and comparison that seeks to reign in selection bias allowing theories concerning the relationship between morphosyntactic and phonological constituent structure to be more severely tested.
