VICAL 1, Oceanic Languages

VICAL 1, Oceanic Languages
Title VICAL 1, Oceanic Languages PDF eBook
Author Ray Harlow
Publisher
Pages 352
Release 1989
Genre Austronesian languages
ISBN

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The Oceanic Languages

The Oceanic Languages
Title The Oceanic Languages PDF eBook
Author John Lynch
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 942
Release 2002
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 0700711287

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The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.

Linguistics Today – Facing a Greater Challenge

Linguistics Today – Facing a Greater Challenge
Title Linguistics Today – Facing a Greater Challenge PDF eBook
Author Piet van Sterkenburg
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 378
Release 2004-10-13
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 902729514X

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Every five years the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL) organises a world congress for linguists. And every five years the Committee faces the challenge of presenting a programme at the highest possible level. The CIPL Executive Committee decided for the Congress planned for 2003 in Prague to focus on four major topics which play an important role in today’s linguistic debate: 1. Typology, 2. Endangered Languages, 3. Methodology and Linguistics (including fieldwork) and 4. Language and the mind. Leading experts have introduced the four themes in their plenary lectures in the course of the congress, which served as a basis for the articles presented in the current volume. This book should be a welcome tool for all linguists wishing to find their way quickly in current developments. A CD-Rom containing the full proceedings of the Prague Congress is included.

Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3

Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3
Title Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3 PDF eBook
Author R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 568
Release 2012-05-24
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199571090

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R.M.W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language.

A Grammar of Yélî Dnye

A Grammar of Yélî Dnye
Title A Grammar of Yélî Dnye PDF eBook
Author Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 619
Release 2022-06-06
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110733900

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This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with surrounding languages, the language provides evidence of the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion. The grammar provides detailed information on the phoneme inventory, morphology, syntax and select semantic fields. Remarkable features include a 90 phoneme inventory including unique sounds, a morphology with thousands of non-compositional portmanteau elements, complex rules for negation, and extensive ergative syntax. Unusual patterns are also found in the organization of semantic fields, for example in partonymies of the body, taxonomies of the natural world, verbal semantics and kinship terms. The combination of linguistic ‘rara’ suggest that linguistic evolution under low contact can yield baroque and unusual patterns. The volume should be of special interest to linguists, typologists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and researchers in Oceania and Melanesia. Endorsement: "This long-awaited grammar is a major contribution to Papuan and general linguistics, providing as it does by far the most comprehensive and accurate grammatical description of a language that has already assumed a position as one of the world's most complicated. Hitherto, the most extensive grammatical description of the language has been the survey-like Henderson (1995), and while Levinson explicitly acknowledges his debt to this earlier grammar and to unpublished work by Henderson, his own detailed grammar clearly takes the level of description and analysis of the language to a completely new level. In particular, Levinson's grammar makes clear precisely to what extent and in what ways the language's morphology is complex beyond even what most studies on morphologically complex languages envisage. In addition, it provides a much more detailed account of the language's syntax, based on a judicious combination of corpus attestation and careful elicitation (incl. using the kits developed by Levinson's group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics). The grammar thus not only fills a major lacuna in our knowledge of the non-Austronesian languages of the New Guinea area, but also provides grist for future studies on the implications of the language's complexities." Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
Title The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics PDF eBook
Author Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher OUP USA
Pages 1366
Release 2010-06-09
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199738637

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With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.

Grammars in Contact

Grammars in Contact
Title Grammars in Contact PDF eBook
Author Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 376
Release 2007-01-04
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0191514128

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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.