A Descriptive Grammar of Lolo
Title | A Descriptive Grammar of Lolo PDF eBook |
Author | M.-C. Fu |
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Pages | |
Release | 1951 |
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A Grammar of Nuosu
Title | A Grammar of Nuosu PDF eBook |
Author | Matthias Gerner |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 2013-10-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110308673 |
This is the first modern grammar of Nuosu written in English. Nuosu belongs to a little known section of Tibeto-Burman. The 2.5 Million ethnic Nuosu are part of the Yi nationality and live in Sichuan (China). This grammar informs Tibeto-Burman linguists, typologists, scholars of language contact and foreign learners of Nuosu.
A Grammar of Lalo
Title | A Grammar of Lalo PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Björverud |
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Pages | 202 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | China |
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Dictionnaires
Title | Dictionnaires PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 1058 |
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ISBN | 9783110124217 |
Yao'an Lolo Grammar Sketch
Title | Yao'an Lolo Grammar Sketch PDF eBook |
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Pages | 190 |
Release | 2010 |
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The Dictionary of Lahu
Title | The Dictionary of Lahu PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Matisoff |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 1502 |
Release | 2024-03-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0520327136 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study
Title | Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study PDF eBook |
Author | Shelece Easterday |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 2019-11-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3961101949 |
The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure. Syllable patterns involving long sequences of consonants are both typologically rare and theoretically marginalized, with few approaches treating these as natural or unproblematic structures. This book is an investigation of the properties of languages with highly complex syllable patterns. The two aims are (i) to establish whether these languages share other linguistic features in common such that they constitute a distinct linguistic type, and (ii) to identify possible diachronic paths and natural mechanisms by which these patterns come about in the history of a language. These issues are investigated in a diversified sample of 100 languages, 25 of which have highly complex syllable patterns. Languages with highly complex syllable structure are characterized by a number of phonetic, phonological, and morphological features which serve to set them apart from languages with simpler syllable patterns. These include specific segmental and suprasegmental properties, a higher prevalence of vowel reduction processes with extreme outcomes, and higher average morpheme/word ratios. The results suggest that highly complex syllable structure is a linguistic type distinct from but sharing some characteristics with other proposed holistic phonological types, including stress-timed and consonantal languages. The results point to word stress and specific patterns of gestural organization as playing important roles in the diachronic development of these patterns out of simpler syllable structures.