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Book Proceedings of the Twenty third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society February 14 17 1997 Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Africa

Download or read book Proceedings of the Twenty third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society February 14 17 1997 Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Africa written by Ashlee C. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure

Download or read book General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure written by Matthew L. Juge and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Africa

Download or read book Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Africa written by Ashlee C. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society written by Berkeley Linguistics Society and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Twenty ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society February 14 17 2003

Download or read book Proceedings of the Twenty ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society February 14 17 2003 written by Berkeley Linguistics Society. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Introduction to African Languages

Download or read book An Introduction to African Languages written by George Tucker Childs and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author's lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author's own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.

Book Proceedings of the Twenty ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society February 14 17 2003

Download or read book Proceedings of the Twenty ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society February 14 17 2003 written by Berkeley Linguistics Society. Annual Meeting Special Session on Minority and Diasporic Languages of Europe and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2000 Bibliographie Linguistique de l Ann e 2000

Download or read book Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2000 Bibliographie Linguistique de l Ann e 2000 written by Sijmen Tol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 1674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A Grammar of Mani

Download or read book A Grammar of Mani written by G. Tucker Childs and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete grammar of the Mani language spoken in the Samu (alternate French spelling “Samou”) region of Sierra Leone and Guinea. The data come from a short pilot study conducted in 2000, and a larger study taking place over two years 2004-2006. That the Mani language will soon disappear is certain; just as certain is that this grammar will be the only one ever written.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization written by Heiko Narrog and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created. Leading scholars from around the world introduce and discuss the core theoretical and methodological bases of grammaticalization, report on work in the field, and point to promising directions for new research. They represent every relevant theoretical perspective and approach. Research on grammaticalization and its role in linguistic change encompasses work on languages from every major linguistic family. Its results offer valuable insights for all theoretical frameworks, including generative, construction, and cognitive grammar, and relate to work in fields such as phonology, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition. The handbook is divided into five parts, of which the first two are devoted to theory and method, the third and fourth to work in linguistic domains, classes, and cateogories, and the fifth to case studies of grammaticalization in a range of languages. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who wish to know more about this fascinating and important field.

Book Demonstratives in discourse

Download or read book Demonstratives in discourse written by Åshild Næss and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives.

Book Unpacking Creativity for Language Teaching

Download or read book Unpacking Creativity for Language Teaching written by Tan Bee Tin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before unlocking creativity, we must first unpack what it means. In this book, creativity is unravelled from various perspectives and the relevance for language teaching and learning is explored. Tin offers a coherent discussion of creativity, adopting an inclusive and integrated but, at the same time, focused approach to creativity. Divided into 12 chapters, the book covers: A critical review of the way the term ‘creativity’ is used, defined and written about in various disciplines Various models and theories of creativity, the product- and process-oriented views of creativity and their relevance for language teaching Three pillars on which creative language pedagogy should be based Over 60 practical tasks, applying theoretical arguments and principles of creativity to language teaching and learning Based on the author’s own practice and research on creativity over the last two decades, the book provides exciting new ideas for scholars and practitioners interested in creativity and creative language pedagogy. The book serves as an important contribution for students, teachers and scholars in the field of applied linguistics, language teaching and education.

Book The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads

Download or read book The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads written by Hilda J Koopman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.