Download or read book Pima Bajo written by Zarina Estrada Fernández and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pima Bajo of Central Sonora Mexico written by Campbell W. Pennington and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas written by Bernard Comrie and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are similar to main or independent clauses. Languages of the Americas, with their rich genetic diversity, have all been under the influence of European languages, whether Spanish, English or Portuguese, a situation that may be expected to have influenced their grammatical patterns. The present volume focuses on two tasks: The first deals with the discussion of functional principles related to relative clause formation: diachrony and paths of grammaticalization, simplicity vs. complexity, and formalization of rules to capture semantic-syntactic correlations. The second provides a typological overview of relative clauses in nine different languages going from north to south in the Americas.
Download or read book Dynamics of Contact Induced Language Change written by Claudine Chamoreau and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. Only a multifaceted methodology enables this fine-grained approach to contact-induced change. A range of methodologies are proposed, but the chapters generally have their roots in a typological perspective. The contributors recognize the precautionary principle: for example, they emphasize the difficulty of studying languages that have not been described adequately and for which diachronic data are not extensive or reliable. Three main perspectives on contact-induced language change are presented. The first explores the role of multilingual speakers in contact-induced language change, especially their spontaneous innovations in discourse. The second explores the differences between ordinary contact-induced change and change in endangered languages. The third discusses various aspects of the relationship between contact-induced change and internal change.
Download or read book Languages of Mexico written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 104. Chapters: Indigenous languages of Mexico, Mexican Spanish, Venetian language, Spanish language, Kickapoo people, O'odham language, Gringo, Nahuatl, Mayan languages, Otomi language, Plautdietsch language, Mixtecan languages, Mesoamerican languages, Uto-Aztecan languages, Tzotzil language, Tarahumara language, Temoaya Otomi, P'urhepecha language, Huichol language, Yucatec Maya language, Trique language, Amuzgo language, Yaqui language, Chicomuceltec language, Ciao, Comecrudan languages, Mescalero-Chiricahua language, Cora language, Chatino language, Huave language, Mazahua language, Albur, Tzeltal language, Tlapanec language, Mixe languages, Tetelcingo Nahuatl, Venetian grammar, Chilango, Pochutec language, Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl, Susto, Venetian literature, Meshico, Misantla Totonac, Curandero, Classical Otomi, Highland Otomi, Mexican Sign Language, Wastek language, Chuj language, Cientifico, Huarijio language, Talian dialect, Tepecano language, Cuitlatec language, Jakaltek language, Ch'ol language, Isthmus Zapotec, Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas, Opata language, Naco, Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl, Mayo language, Chocho language, Instituto Linguistico de Verano, Chipilo Venetian dialect, Triestine dialect, Sayula Popoluca, Rasquache, Orizaba Nahuatl, Chichimeca Jonaz language, Matlatzinca language, Tepehuan language, Tojolab'al language, Saltillo, Orale, Sierra Popoluca, Lacandon language, Academy of the Mixtec Language, Ixcatec language, Fiuman dialect, Highland Puebla Nahuatl, Bachajon Tzeltal language, Zoque languages, Pame language, Guerrero Amuzgo language, Solano language, Pima Bajo language, Chamula Tzotzil, Afro-Seminole Creole, Mexicanero language, Texistepec Popoluca, Highland Totonac, Western Huasteca Nahuatl, Chontal Maya language, Tarascan, Mezquital Otomi, Coatlan Zapotec, Central Huasteca...
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings P Z written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applicative Constructions in the World s Languages written by Fernando Zuniga and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).
Download or read book Finiteness and Nominalization written by Claudine Chamoreau and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the relation between finiteness and nominalization, which is far more complex than the simple opposition finite-nonfinite. The contributions analyze finiteness cross-linguistically from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, focusing on a number of topics that has not been thoroughly explored in the literature. First, the correlation between finiteness and nominalization is also affected by a third factor, information structure. Second, there is a correlation between the continuum of finiteness and the scale from main/independent clauses to dependent clauses. Given that of nominalized constructions occur not only in dependent clauses, but also in independent clauses, it is possible to grade according to degree of nominalization, which can then be related to the scale of finiteness. Finally, each of these scales can also be seen as a product the diachronic process of re-finitization and of finitization.
Download or read book P Z written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa the Americas and the Pacific written by Walter Bisang and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.
Download or read book Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity written by Albert Álvarez González and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch reference systems involved in clause chains, the role of insubordination and the influence of language contact in the development of syntactic complexity as well as the acquisition of complex clauses in child language and the grammaticalization processes leading to syntactic complexity. These studies illustrate the varied aspects involved in clause combining and help to understand how syntactic complexity works and evolves in the world’s languages, how it varies across languages, how it is influenced by language contact, how it is acquired. As such, this book gives the opportunity for readers to expand both their typological and their theoretical knowledge about syntactic complexity in a variety of languages.
Download or read book Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and Their Geographical Distribution written by Cyrus Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA written by CYRUS THOMAS and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Linguistics written by William Frawley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 2198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd Edition encompasses the full range of the contemporary field of linguistics, including historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, and philosophical linguistics with special attention given to interrelations within branches of linguistics and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines. Areas of intersection with the social and behavioral sciences--ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and behavioral linguistics--receive major coverage, along with interdisciplinary work in language and literature, mathematical linguistics, computational linguistics, and applied linguistics.Longer entries in the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ranging up to four thousand words, survey the major fields of study--for example, anthropological linguistics, history of linguistics, semantics, and phonetics. Shorter entries treat specific topics within these fields, such as code switching, sound symbolism, and syntactic features. Other short entries define and discuss technical terms used within the various subfields or provide sketches of the careers of important scholars in the history of linguistics, such as Leonard Bloomfield, Roman Jakobson, and Edward Sapir.A major portion of the work is its extensive coverage of languages and language families. From those as familiar as English, Japanese, and the Romance languages to Hittite, Yoruba, and Nahuatl, all corners of the world receive treatment. Languages that are the subject of independent entries are analyzed in terms of their phonology, grammatical features, syntax, and writing systems. Lists attached to each article on a language group or family enumerate all languages, extinct or still spoken, within that group and provide detailed information on the number of known speakers, geographical range, and degree of intelligibility with other languages in the group. In this way, virtually every known language receives coverage.For ease of reference and to aid research, the articles are alphabetically arranged, each signed by the contributor, supported by up-to-date bibliographies, line drawings, maps, tables, and diagrams, and readily accessible via a system of cross-references and a detailed index and synoptic outline. Authoritative, comprehensive, and innovative, the 2nd edition of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics will be an indispensable addition to personal, public, academic, and research libraries and will introduce a new generation of readers to the complexities and concerns of this field of study.
