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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.
Author : Zarina Estrada Fernández
Publisher : USON
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789706893000
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.
Author : David William Fleck
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : 9780985201623
This monographic study of the Panoan family will serve as an invaluable handbook for both Panoanists seeking a broader perspective and scholars who require an introduction to the family. A new classification encompassing all the extant and extinct Panoan languages and dialects, an evaluation of proposed relations to other language families, a detailed history of Panoan linguistics, a typological overview of the phonology and grammar, and a description of ethnolinguistic features in the family combine to provide a complete picture of Panoan languages and linguistics. An index with the synonyms and spelling variants of all the language names and ethnonyms that are or have been claimed to be Panoan will allow for obscure references in the literature to be quickly resolved.
Author : Benson Latin American Collection
Publisher :
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : Leanne Hinton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317200853
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and language policy; language in educational institutions and in the home; new methodologies and venues for language learning; and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.
Author : Kimberly L. Geeslin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1316800717
Written for both researchers and advanced students, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of Spanish linguistics. Balancing different theoretical perspectives among expert scholars, it provides an in-depth examination of all sub-fields of research in Hispanic linguistics, with a focus on recent advances.
Author : Juan José Bueno Holle
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781013292927
This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment of information structure in a Mesoamerican language. Three main observations motivate the study: Strong documentation and a relatively large and active speaker community create a unique opportunity to document information structure in Isthmus Zapotec and to study the language as it is used by speakers in everyday life; As a tonal and verb-initial language, the examination of Isthmus Zapotec represents a chance to explore the possible combinations of tone, intonation, morphology and verb-initial syntax that may occur in the coding of information structure. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Indians
ISBN :
Author : Carol Myers-Scotton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198237129
As much a study in grammatical theory as of language in use, the aim of this book is to describe and explain intrasential codeswitching - the production of two or more languages within the same sentence.
Author : Sonia Frota
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199685339
This book offers the first comprehensive description of the prosody of nine Romance languages that takes into account internal dialectal variation. Teams of experts examine the prosody of Catalan, French, Friulian, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Romanian, Sardinian, and Spanish using the Autosegmental Metrical framework of intonational phonology and the Tones and Breaks Indices (ToBI) transcription system. The chapters all share a common methodology, based on a common Discourse Completion Task questionnaire, and provide extensive empirical data. The authors then analyse how intonation patterns work together with other grammatical means such as syntactic constructions and discourse particles in the linguistic marking of a varied set of sentence types and pragmatic meanings across Romance languages. The ToBI prosodic systems and annotations proposed for each language are based both on a phonological analysis of the target language as well as on the shared goal of using ToBI analyses that are comparable across Romance languages. This book will pave the way for more systematic typological comparisons of prosody across both Romance and non-Romance languages.
Author : Lilián Graciela Guerrero Valenzuela
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9786070206597