Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9004643257
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
Author : Cecilia Odé
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789042002531
Book Description
From the contents: On the changing context of Austronesian historical linguistics (George W. Grace).- Word final nasal in Malay dialects (Ajid Che Kob).- Moklen-Moken phonology: mainland or insular Southeast Asian typology? (Michael D. Larish).- The problem of the aspectual classification of Indonesian verbs (Agus Salim).- Split ergativity in the Nelemwa language (Isabelle Brill).
Historical Linguistics 2001
Author : Barry J. Blake
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247490
Book Description
This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of linguistics, particularly morpho-syntax.
The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
Author : K. Alexander Adelaar
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0700712860
Book Description
An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
Reconstructing Syntax
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004392009
Book Description
During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we’ll eat the pudding.” This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax.
The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia
Author : Alexander Adelaar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019880735X
Book Description
This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers. It offers a comprehensive account of the historical relations and typological diversity in the group, including current debates in their prehistories and descriptive priorities for future study.
Bibliographie Linguistique de L'annee 1999
Author : Mark Janse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1484 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402017162
Book Description
Setting out the historical national and religious characteristics of the Italians as they impact on the integration within the European Union, this study makes note of the two characteristics that have an adverse effect on Italian national identity: cleavages between north and south and the dominant role of family. It discusses how for Italians family loyalty is stronger than any other allegiance, including feelings towards their country, their nation, or the EU. Due to such subnational allegiances and values, this book notes that Italian civic society is weaker and engagement at the grass roots is less robust than one finds in other democracies, leaving politics in Italy largely in the hands of political parties. The work concludes by noting that EU membership, however, provides no magic bullet for Italy: it cannot change internal cleavages, the Italian worldview, and family values or the country’s mafia-dominated power matrix, and as a result, the underlying absence of fidelity to a shared polity—Italian or European—leave the country as ungovernable as ever.
A Grammar of Tukang Besi
Author : Mark Donohue
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110805545
Book Description
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World
Author : Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 311019631X
Book Description
This volume contains a wealth of information on the word accentual (metrical, stress) phenomena that we encounter in natural languages. Two types of information will be supplied: language profiles in 'tabular form' and survey articles. Of the total of 10 chapters in Part I, 3 are general in nature, while the other 7 describe and analyze word accentual systems in all continents. The volume's point of departure is a database called StressTyp. StressTyp developed into a database on word prosodic systems of the languages of the world. The over 500 languages, representing a wide geographical distribution, taken from the StressTyp database will be represented in this volume. For all these languages, information regarding identity, sources and stress location(s) will be included, accompanied by some examples in nearly all cases. These language data packages will be organized by language family. This information constitutes Part II of the volume.
Lexical Polycategoriality
Author : Valentina Vapnarsky
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902726595X
Book Description
This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality –according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical category– in a wide number of unrelated languages, and within different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Twenty languages are thoroughly analyzed. Apart from French, Arabic and Hebrew, the volume includes mostly understudied languages, spoken in New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Amazonia, Meso- and North America. Resulting from a long-standing collaboration between leading international experts, this book brings under one cover new data analyses and results on word categories from the linguistic and acquisitional point of view. It will be of the utmost interest to researchers, teachers and graduate students in different fields of linguistics (morpho-syntax, semantics, typology), language acquisition, as well as psycholinguistics, cognition and anthropology.
