Download or read book The Deep Syntax of Lisu Sentences written by Edward Reginald Hope and published by Department of Linguistics Research School of Pacific. This book was released on 1974 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Indigenous Australian content.
Download or read book The Syntax of Sentence and Text written by Sv?tla ?mejrková and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of papers inspired by the work of Frantisek Danes and is published in honour of his 75th birthday. Danes' international contribution to the development of Prague School functionalism, the theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics is reflected in the 27 papers collected in four thematic sections of this volume.
Download or read book The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure written by Misha Becker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure. The theoretical claims of the book expand the well-known hypotheses of syntactic and semantic bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles of language acquisition.
Download or read book Iconicity in Syntax written by John Haiman and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume all explore one kind of functional explanation for various aspects of linguistic form – iconicity: linguistic forms are frequently the way they are because they resemble the conceptual structures they are used to convey, or, linguistic structures resemble each other because the different conceptual domains they represent are thought of in the same way. The papers in Part I of this volume deal with aspects of motivation, the ways in which the linguistic form is a diagram of conceptual structure, and homologous with it in interesting ways. Most of the papers in Part II focus on isomorphism, the tendency to associate a single invariant meaning with each single invariant form. The papers in Part III deal with the apparent arbitrariness that arises from competing motivations.
Download or read book Language Typology and Syntactic Description Volume 2 Complex Constructions written by Timothy Shopen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of a survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the world's languages.
Download or read book The Sino Tibetan Languages written by Randy J. LaPolla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
Download or read book A Grammar of Prinmi written by Picus Sizhi Ding and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pǔmǐ Nationality and the Zàng Nationality (in Mùlǐ, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of Tangut. Picus Ding examines in the grammar the phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology, syntax and information structure of Prinmi, with two sample texts and an English-Prinmi glossary provided in appendices. Some noteworthy features of Prinmi include a wealth of clitics (appearing as proclitic, enclitic, mesoclitic or endoclitic), a lexical tone system akin to Japanese, and a collection of existential verbs that discriminates concreteness, animacy, and location.
Download or read book A Grammar of Meithei written by Shobhana Lakshmi Chelliah and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Emerging Sexual Inequality Among the Lisu of Northern Thailand written by Klein-Hutheesing and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lisu people, whose lives have been recorded in this publication, are predominantly women of a mountain community in northern Thailand. Along with their men, they have been growing poppies for opium for over a century, the sales of which have been sustained their non-authoritarian society and its implied repute ideology. While living with them for several years, the author observed how newly introduced substitute crops involving a change in production and trade relations had upset the previously egalitarian basis of female and male worth, as exemplified in the metaphor of elephant and dog. The modified gender system in which the Lisu female has become an underdog is described against the backdrop of conventional ideas regarding the cosmic forces, the division of labour, bridewealth and marriage.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces written by Gillian Ramchand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art guide to some of the most exciting work in current linguistics explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. It examines how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal about the operations of language within the mind, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication. Leading international scholars present cutting-edge accounts of developments in the interfaces between phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. They bring to bear a rich variety of methods and theoretical perspectives, focus on a broad array of issues and problems, and illustrate their arguments from a wide range of the world's languages. After the editors' introduction to its structure, scope, and content, the book is divided into four parts. The first, Sound, is concerned with the interfaces between phonetics and phonology, phonology and morphology, and phonology and syntax. Part II, Structure, considers the interactions of syntax with morphology, semantics, and the lexicon, and explores the status of the word and its representional status in the mind. Part III, Meaning, revisits the syntax-semantics interface from the perspective of compositionality, and looks at issues concerned with intonation, discourse, and context. The authors in the final part of the book, General Architectural Concerns, examine work on Universal Grammar, the overall model of language, and linguistic and associated theories of language and cognition. All scholars and advanced students of language will value this book, whether they are in linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, computational science, or informatics.
Download or read book The Sino Tibetan Languages written by Randy J. LaPolla and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades. Now in its second edition and fully updated to include new research, The Sino-Tibetan Languages includes overview articles on individual languages, with an emphasis on the less commonly described languages, as well as descriptions and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. There are overviews of the whole family on genetic classification and language contact, syntax and morphology, and also on word order typology. There are also more detailed overview articles on the phonology, morphosyntax, and writing system of just the Sinitic side of the family. Supplementing these overviews are articles on Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. Tibeto-Burman is reviewed by genetic or geographical sub-group, with overview articles on some of the major groups and areas, and there are also detailed descriptions of 41 individual Tibeto-Burman languages, written by world experts in the field. Designed for students and researchers of Asian languages, The Sino-Tibetan Languages is a detailed overview of the field. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages, and researchers working in historical, typological and comparative linguistics.
Download or read book Research on Tibeto Burman Languages written by Austin Hale and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages".
Download or read book Intransitive Predication written by Leon Stassen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his analysis on a wide sample of languages, Stassen investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages - 'cognitive space' - the topography of which is the same for all languages.
Download or read book Word Order Universals written by John A Hawkins and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word Order Universals
Download or read book Introduction to Typology written by Lindsay J. Whaley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal in introductory courses dealing with grammatical structure and linguistic analysis, Introduction to Typology overviews the major grammatical categories and constructions in the world's languages. Framed in a typological perspective, the constant concern of this primary text is to underscore the similarities and differences which underlie the vast array of human languages.
Download or read book Discourse Grammar and Typology written by Werner Abraham and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in larger contexts, (2) generalizations are correct only as long as pertinent linguistic material does not contradict them, and (3) that linguistic categories and rules are of a temporal nature. In this sense, the contributions represent 'functional typological' comparison, often of languages not frequently investigated. The papers are arranged in 5 groups: Transitivity and voice; Clausal modality; Typology and discourse categories; Language and Culture; Functionality.
Download or read book Simple Sentences in Tongan written by Claude Tchekhoff and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
