Download or read book Aspects of the Phonology of the Sinhalese written by Rajapaksa Mudiyanselage Wilson Rajapaksa and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the thesis is to study Sinhalese verb forms in relation to slow and rapid styles. The theory used in the analysis is that of Prosodic Phonology. The thesis is presented in seven chapters and an appendix. Discussed in Chapter 1 are styles, speech situations, the theory used in the analysis, the choice of the theory as the theoretical background, the nature of the analysis, research procedure, data, informants, and new information arising from the research. Chapter 2 is divided into two parts. Part 1 is an outline description of vowel and consonant sounds. The physical characteristics of these sounds and their distribution are given here. Part 2 includes a discussion of the syllable: syllable structure, syllable quantity, syllable prominence and syllable division. Chapter 3 contains an analysis of simple verb stems. Structures and patterns of verb stems, and contrasts and functions of elements within patterns are given here. In the analysis of disyllabic structures, the relationship between the first and second syllables is also discussed. Included in chapter 4 is a phonological analysis of phrasal verb stems. Here, three types of stems, non-free morphemes, loan stems and onomatopoeic stems are described. At the end of each analysis, differences of the phonological structure of stems of the given three types are considered. In the analysis of the onomatopoeic stems, the relationship between the initial and non-initial syllables is also examined. Chapter 5 includes a phonological analysis of affixes which can be suffixes, infixes or prefixes. How phonological structures of affixes differ from those of stems is also discussed. Discussed in chapter 6 are the conjug. marker, conjug. classes, the relationship between non-past vol. and invol. stems and non-past and past vol. stems, junction prosodies, reduplication and the length relationship. The analysis of rapid verb forms is given in chapter 7. Here, stems and affixes are described separately. In the analysis, phonological structures of parallel slow forms of stems and affixes are also given for comparison with structures of rapid forms. This chapter is followed by a summary and conclusion. The appendix includes a grammatical analysis of verb forms and a list of simple verbs which are analyzed in the thesis. In the grammatical analysis, volitive and involitive forms, tenses, aspects, overlapping forms and the grammatical function of suffixes are discussed.
Download or read book Aspects of the Phonology of the Sinhalese written by Rajapaksa Mudiyanselage Wilson Rajapaksa and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Phonology of Sinhalese written by Sisil Walimunidevage Karunatillake and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Phonology of Sinhala written by Ḍabliv. Es Karuṇātilaka and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to Sinhalese language.
Download or read book Phonology of the Sinhalese Inscriptions Up to the End of the 10th Century written by P. B. F. Wijeratne and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sinhala written by Dileep Chandralal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although the earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 8th century A.D. its written tradition has traced a longer path of more than 2000 years. Among the major topics covered in this volume are the writing system, phonology, morphology, grammatical constructions and discourse and pragmatic aspects of Sinhala. Written in a clear and lucid style, the book presents a rich sampling of the data and serves a useful typological reference. Therefore this is required reading for not only linguists and Sinhala specialists but also to anyone interested in language, thought, and culture.
Download or read book Phonology of the Sinhalese Inscriptions Up to the End of the Tenth Century A D written by B. P. F. Wijeratne and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phonology of the Noun in Colloquial Sinhalese written by Sumanapala Lalachandra Kekulawala and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Cause Effect Analysis of the Phonology of Sri Lankan Englishes written by Rohini Chandrica Widyalankara and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Englishes are a rich source on cross linguistic dynamics in contact situations where English is the superstrate. Sinhala is a minority language of the world and is spoken by a population of 15,173,820 in Sri Lanka. The language specific rankings of markedness constraints in the phonological grammar and conventions governing grapheme to phoneme conversion rules of Sinhala result in the dichotomy of transfer versus inhibition of the source language phonology. The Constraint Fluctuation Hypothesis recognizes that the reranking of constraints of a donor language is not a homogeneous process. Thus within the typology of Sri Lankan Englishes the pronunciation of the Standard variety has gained endonormative stabilization and codification while Other varieties flout a multitude of norms set down by the standard. English loanword assimilation paradigms which add to the corpus of the thadbhawa wordstock of Sinhala and current practices in loanword usage in Sinhala print media scaffold further evidence that transfer of the assimilated phonological contours too is a causal factor. The theoretical basis of this book recruits Markedness and Expense of Effort during analysis.
Download or read book Phonology of Noun in Coloquial Sinhalese written by Sumanapala Lala chandra Kekulawala and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phonology of the Sinhalese Inscriptions Up to the End of the 10th Century A D written by P. B. F. Wijeratne and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sinhala English Code mixing in Sri Lanka written by Chamindi Dilkushi Senaratne and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis contributes to one of the most criticized, devalued and yet highly frequent linguistic phenomena in post-colonial urban Sri Lanka: Sinhala-English CM. In answering the main research question of this thesis, this treatise seeks to provide an adequate account of mixed constructions prevalent in the Sinhala-English bilingual corpus within the framework proposed in Muysken’s (2000) CM typology.
Download or read book A Study in the Syntax and Phonology of Modern Colloquial Sinhalese written by D.M. Wickramasinghe and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colloquial Sinhalese written by Gordon H. Fairbanks and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prosodic Analysis written by Frank Robert Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language written by Wilhelm Geiger and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phonology and Morphology of Modern Sinhala written by Nimal Pannakitti Parawahera and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
