Author : Johanna Nichols
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0520098773
Comprehensive reference grammar of Ingush, a language of the Nakh branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian or East Caucasian language family of the central Caucasus (southern Russia). Ingush is notable for its complex phonology, prosody including minimal tone system, complex morphology of both nouns and verbs, clause chaining, long-distance reflexivization, and extreme degree of syntactic ergativity.
Author : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229945
The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and genitive objects in the languages of Europe. With regard to grammatical relations, topics include the order of obliques in OV and VO languages, the effects of the referential hierarchy on the distribution of grammatical relations, the problem of whether the passive requires a subject category, the relation between subjecthood and definiteness, and the issue of how the loss of case and aspectual systems triggers the use of compensatory mechanisms in heritage Russian.
Author : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 1993-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521402453
A study of the idea of the 'head' or dominating element of a phrase.
Author : Diana Forker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902726001X
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles different case studies and systematically investigates the impact of Russian at all linguistic levels, from the lexicon to the domains of grammar to discourse, and with varying types of outcomes such as relatively rapid language shift, structural changes in a relatively stable contact situation, pidginization and super variability at the post-pidgin stage. The volume appeals to linguists studying language contact and contact-induced language change from a broad range of perspectives, who want to gain insight into how one of the largest languages in the world influences other smaller languages, but also experts of mostly minority languages in the sphere of the former Soviet Union.
Author : Johanna Nichols
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415315951
This bilingual dictionary is the very first of its kind and contains about 6,000 words of essential vocabulary for Ingush.
Author : Amjad M. Jaimoukha
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Checheno-Ingushetia (Russia)
ISBN : 9780415323284
This volume provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Chechen people, including chapters on history, religion, politics, economy, culture, literature and media.
Author : Anthony P. Grant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199945101
Every language has been influenced in some way by other languages. In many cases, this influence is reflected in words which have been absorbed from other languages as the names for newer items or ideas, such as perestroika, manga, or intifada (from Russian, Japanese, and Arabic respectively). In other cases, the influence of other languages goes deeper, and includes the addition of new sounds, grammatical forms, and idioms to the pre-existing language. For example, English's structure has been shaped in such a way by the effects of Norse, French, Latin, and Celtic--though English is not alone in its openness to these influences. Any features can potentially be transferred from one language to another if the sociolinguistic and structural circumstances allow for it. Further, new languages--pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages--can come into being as the result of language contact. In thirty-three chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact examines the various forms of contact-induced linguistic change and the levels of language which have provided instances of these influences. In addition, it provides accounts of how language contact has affected some twenty languages, spoken and signed, from all parts of the world. Chapters are written by experts and native-speakers from years of research and fieldwork. Ultimately, this Handbook provides an authoritative account of the possibilities and products of contact-induced linguistic change.
Author : Maria Polinsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1189 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0190690690
The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of the Caucasus have often been mischaracterized or exoticized, many of them have cross-linguistically rare features found in few or no other languages. This handbook presents facts and descriptions of the languages written by experts. The first half of the book is an introduction to the languages, with the linguistic profiles enriched by demographic research about their speakers. It features overviews of the main language families as well as detailed grammatical descriptions of several individual languages. The second half of the book delves more deeply into theoretical analyses of features, such as agreement, ellipsis, and discourse properties, which are found in some languages of the Caucasus. Promising areas for future research are highlighted throughout the handbook, which will be of interest to linguists of all subfields.
Author : Patience Epps
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110219050
In his (1921) book, Language, Sapir made the famous observation, “All grammars leak” (38). By this he meant that within the systematic paradigms, rules and routinized patterns of any grammar, we always find a few irregularities and surprises. The same can be said for linguistic typologies. Typological theories are critical tools for linguists, for exploring differences and similarities among languages, for learning about the cognitive factors and social practices that make languages the way they are, and for making predictions about other properties of languages that are members of a certain type. So what do we do when a typology leaks? This paper follows the spirit of such work as Aske (1989) on path types and Mithun and Chafe (1999) on grammatical relations types to understand the grammatical and functional motivations of language-internal typological diversity: that is, why and how a single language uses patterns and constructions of more than one type. .
Author : Maggie Tallerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199541116
Leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field, including work in animal behaviour; anatomy, genetics and neurology; the prehistory of language; the development of our uniquely linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.
