A Comparative Study of Bantu Noun Classes
Author : Jouni F. Maho
Publisher : ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages
Author : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027287228
Book Description
This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.
A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages
Author : Harry Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1922
Category : African languages
ISBN :
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number
Author : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198795858
Book Description
This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects, and Part III the different means of expressing plurality in the event domain. The final part offers fifteen case studies that include in-depth discussion of grammatical number phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages, written by - or in collaboration with - native speakers linguists or based on extensive fieldwork. The volume draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics.
The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number
Author : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192515373
Book Description
This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects, and Part III the different means of expressing plurality in the event domain. The final part offers fifteen case studies that include in-depth discussion of grammatical number phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages, written by - or in collaboration with - native speakers linguists or based on extensive fieldwork. The volume draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics.
Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity II
Author : Francesca Di Garbo
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961101809
Book Description
The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. Volume two consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity. This volume is preceded by volume one, which, in addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia.
Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages
Author : Gratien Gualbert Atindogbé
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110469545
Book Description
This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi. As a productive strategy in the world’s languages, and considering the evidence that the African language are either under-described, poorly described or not described at all, investigations into the forms, structures and functions of relative clauses and relativization start filling the gap of the absence of analytical descriptive works on the topic. The papers dwelt on the construction of relative clauses, their structure and constraints, their morphosyntactic properties, how they are used to give prominence to topics or participants that are thematic in a given discourse, and to mark the boundaries of units of text, and the formal characteristics of restrictive relative clause constructions. The findings generated so far constitute an endless tank for many fields of hyphenated linguistics including general linguistics, cognitive linguist, applied psycholinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics and pragmatics.
Nominal Classification
Author : Marcin Kilarski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027270902
Book Description
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in fact a central role in the lexicon, grammar and the organization of discourse. As a result, the often contradictory approaches to their functionality and semantic motivation encapsulate the evolving conceptions of such issues as cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure, the diverse functions of grammatical categories, linguistic complexity, agreement phenomena and the interplay between lexicon and grammar. The combination of a typological and historiographic perspective adopted here allows the reader to appreciate the detail and insight of earlier, supposedly ‘prescientific’ accounts in light of the data now available and to examine contemporary discussions in the context of prevailing conceptions in the study of language at different points in its history since antiquity.
The Noun-Class System of Proto-Benue-Congo
Author : Paul de Wolf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110905310
Book Description
Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2000 / Bibliographie Linguistique de l'Année 2000
Author : Sijmen Tol
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1674 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2004-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402030086
Book Description
Bibliographie Linguistique/ Linguistic Bibliography is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than fifty years (the first two volumes, covering the years 1939-1947, were published in 1949-1950), Bibliographie Linguistique is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of linguistics, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification, Bibliographie Linguistique remains the standard reference book for every scholar of language and linguistics.
