Download or read book The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales written by R. H. Mathews and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In R. H. Mathews' enlightening work, 'The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales', delve into the rich linguistic heritage of the Wiradjuri people and their Pama-Nyungan language. From the intricacies of orthography to the unique dialects like Wiraiari and Jeithi, Mathews provides a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages.
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Download or read book List of Grammars Dictionaries Etc written by New York Public Library. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Associated Motion written by Antoine Guillaume and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.
Download or read book The Bird Name Book written by Susan Myers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marvelously illustrated A-to-Z compendium of bird names from around the globe The Bird Name Book is an alphabetical reference book on the origins and meanings of common group bird names, from “accentor” to “zeledonia.” A cornucopia of engaging facts and anecdotes, this superbly researched compendium presents a wealth of incisive entries alongside stunning photos by the author and beautiful historic prints and watercolors. Myers provides brief biographies of prominent figures in ornithology—such as John Gould, John Latham, Alfred Newton, and Robert Ridgway—and goes on to describe the etymological history of every common group bird name found in standardized English. She interweaves the stories behind the names with quotes from publications dating back to the 1400s, illuminating the shared evolution of language and our relationships with birds, and rooting the names in the history of ornithological discovery. Whether you are a well-traveled birder or have ever wondered how the birds in your backyard got their names, The Bird Name Book is an ideal companion.
Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 1901 1914 written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gundungurra Language written by R. H. Mathews and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. H. Mathews takes readers on a linguistic journey back to 1901 in this book, where the author attempted to provide a concise insight into the elusive Gundangara language. Nestled within the Yuin-Kuric branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family, this ancient language bears striking similarities to Ngunnawal, fascinating linguists and historians alike.
Download or read book Grammars in Contact written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic origin, or result from geographic proximity and borrowing. Some aspects of grammar are spread more readily than others. The question is - which are they? When languages are in contact with each other, what changes do we expect to occur in their grammatical structures? Only an inductively based cross-linguistic examination can provide an answer. This is what this volume is about. The book starts with a typological introduction outlining principles of contact-induced change and factors which facilitate diffusion of linguistic traits. It is followed by twelve studies of contact-induced changes in languages from Amazonia, East and West Africa, Australia, East Timor, and the Sinitic domain. Set alongside these are studies of Pennsylvania German spoken by Mennonites in Canada in contact with English, Basque in contact with Romance languages in Spain and France, and language contact in the Balkans. All the studies are based on intensive fieldwork, and each cast in terms of the typological parameters set out in the introduction. The book includes a glossary to facilitate its use by graduates and advanced undergraduates in linguistics and in disciplines such as anthropology.
Download or read book American Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Impossible Persons written by Daniel Harbour and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. Impossible Persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work, Harbour establishes three core theses, one empirical, one theoretical, and one metatheoretical. Together, these redefine the data subsumed under the rubric of “person,” simplify the feature inventory that a theory of person must posit, and restructure the metatheory in which feature theory as a whole resides. At its heart, Impossible Persons poses a simple question of the possible versus the actual: in how many ways could languages configure their person systems, in how many do they configure them, and what explains the size and shape of the shortfall? Harbour's empirical thesis—that the primary object of study for persons are partitions, not syncretisms—transforms a sea of data into a categorical problem of the attested and the absent. Positing, innovatively, that features denote actions, not predicates, he shows that two features alone generate all and only the attested systems. This apparently poor inventory yields rich explanatory dividends, covering the morphological composition of person, its interaction with number, its connection to space, and properties of its semantics and linearization. Moreover, the core properties of this approach are shared with Harbour's earlier work on number features. Jointly, these results establish an important metatheoretical corollary concerning the balance between richness of feature semantics and restrictiveness of feature inventories. This corollary holds deep implications for how linguists should approach feature theory in future.
Download or read book The Languages of Australia written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.
Download or read book The Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society written by East Riding Antiquarian Society (Yorkshire) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society written by Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Society's proceedings and list of members.
Download or read book Transactions written by East Riding Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
