Modality in Underdescribed Languages

Modality in Underdescribed Languages
Title Modality in Underdescribed Languages PDF eBook
Author Jozina Vander Klok
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 439
Release 2022-11-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110721562

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Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about modal expressions across the world’s language is still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks, as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques. The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on underdescribed languages - spanning seven different language families - are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools, while also indicating the successes and challenges of their contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions.

Modality in Underdescribed Languages

Modality in Underdescribed Languages
Title Modality in Underdescribed Languages PDF eBook
Author Jozina Vander Klok
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 430
Release 2022-11-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110721473

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Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about modal expressions across the world’s language is still translation-based. This book aims to facilitate the study of modality across more diverse languages and a wider participant base by explaining and illustrating a nuanced set of methods, including storyboards, questionnaires, corpora research, experimental tasks, as well as a discussion of practical semantic fieldwork techniques. The methodological protocols tested and employed by the authors on underdescribed languages - spanning seven different language families - are intended to be applicable as cross-linguistic tools, while also indicating the successes and challenges of their contributions. Expanding the study of modality to a wider set of underdescribed languages will undoubtedly bring new insights into our theoretical understanding of modality and deepen our understanding of a cross-linguistic typology of modal expressions.

The verb in Nyakyusa

The verb in Nyakyusa
Title The verb in Nyakyusa PDF eBook
Author Bastian Persohn
Publisher Language Science Press
Pages 404
Release 2017
Genre Bantu languages
ISBN 3961100144

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Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.

Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
Title Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics PDF eBook
Author Beke Hansen
Publisher BRILL
Pages 437
Release 2018-12-24
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 900438152X

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In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen analyses variation and change in the modal systems of three second-language varieties of English in Asia by taking a sociolinguistic approach to corpus data. Her study focuses on the modal and semi-modal verbs of strong obligation and necessity in Hong Kong English, Indian English, and Singapore English based on the relevant ICE component corpora. She adopts a typologically-informed perspective on variation in World Englishes by comparing the structures of the speakers’ first languages with the structures of the emergent varieties in the expression of epistemic modality. Beyond this, she analyses language change by constructing apparent-time scenarios to compensate for the lack of diachronic corpora in World Englishes.

The Expression of Modality

The Expression of Modality
Title The Expression of Modality PDF eBook
Author William Frawley
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 281
Release 2008-08-22
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 311019757X

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This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical development, and acquisition. There are also specific chapters on modality in Zapotec and American Sign Language, which show the range of forms that modal notions can take. To assist its tutorial function, the book closes with a comprehensive conceptual outline of all the chapters. Key features: new series textbook covers the essentials of modality

Language

Language
Title Language PDF eBook
Author George Melville Bolling
Publisher
Pages 512
Release 2008
Genre Comparative linguistics
ISBN

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Sign Languages in Village Communities

Sign Languages in Village Communities
Title Sign Languages in Village Communities PDF eBook
Author Ulrike Zeshan
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 422
Release 2012-10-30
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1614511497

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The book is a unique collection of research on sign languages that have emerged in rural communities with a high incidence of, often hereditary, deafness. These sign languages represent the latest addition to the comparative investigation of languages in the gestural modality, and the book is the first compilation of a substantial number of different "village sign languages".Written by leading experts in the field, the volume uniquely combines anthropological and linguistic insights, looking at both the social dynamics and the linguistic structures in these village communities. The book includes primary data from eleven different signing communities across the world, including results from Jamaica, India, Turkey, Thailand, and Bali. All known village sign languages are endangered, usually because of pressure from larger urban sign languages, and some have died out already. Ironically, it is often the success of the larger sign language communities in urban centres, their recognition and subsequent spread, which leads to the endangerment of these small minority sign languages. The book addresses this specific type of language endangerment, documentation strategies, and other ethical issues pertaining to these sign languages on the basis of first-hand experiences by Deaf fieldworkers.