A Grammar of Makary Kotoko
Title | A Grammar of Makary Kotoko PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Allison |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 2020-06-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004422676 |
In A Grammar of Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison provides a thorough description of Makary Kotoko - a Chadic language of Cameroon, framing the discussion within R.M.W. Dixon’s functional/typological approach known as Basic Linguistic Theory.
Phonological Word and Grammatical Word
Title | Phonological Word and Grammatical Word PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2020-11-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198865686 |
This volume examines the concept of 'word' as a phonological unit and as an item with both meaning and grammatical function. The chapters explore how this concept can be applied to a range of typologically diverse languages, from Lao and Hmong in Southeast Asia to Yidiñ in northern Australia and Murui in the Amazonian jungle.
A Grammar of Pévé
Title | A Grammar of Pévé PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Shay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Cameroon |
ISBN | 9789004409156 |
A Grammar of Pévé describes and examines a wide range of linguistic forms and functions found in Pévé, a Chadic language spoken in parts of the Republic of Chad and the Republic of Cameroon.
Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture
Title | Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | James Essegbey |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2019-07-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004396993 |
A comprehensive description of Tutrugbu (Nyangbo), a Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) language. It examines phonological, morphosyntactic and pragmatic structures, comparing them to the neighboring Tafi and Avatime, and the dominant regional language, Ewe. It is for African language scholars, documentary linguists, and typologists.
Click Consonants
Title | Click Consonants PDF eBook |
Author | Bonny Sands |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 483 |
Release | 2020-09-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004424350 |
Click Consonants is an indispensable volume for those who want to explore cutting-edge research on the linguistics of this remarkable yet oft-overlooked class of consonants.
The Negative Existential Cycle
Title | The Negative Existential Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | Ljuba Veselinova |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 670 |
Release | 2022-12-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3961103399 |
In 1991, William Croft suggested that negative existentials (typically lexical expressions that mean ‘not exist, not have’) are one possible source for negation markers and gave his hypothesis the name Negative Existential Cycle (NEC). It is a variationist model based on cross-linguistic data. For a good twenty years following its formulation, it was cited at face-value without ever having been tested by (historical)-comparative data. Over the last decade, Ljuba Veselinova has worked on testing the model in a comparative perspective, and this edited volume further expands on her work. The collection presented here features detailed studies of several language families such as Bantu, Chadic and Indo-European. A number of articles focus on the micro-variation and attested historical developments within smaller groups and clusters such as Arabic, Mandarin and Cantonese, and Nanaic. Finally, variation and historical developments in specific languages are discussed for Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Egyptian, Moksha-Mordvin (Uralic), Bashkir (Turkic), Kalmyk (Mongolic), three Pama-Nyungan languages, O’dam (Southern Uto-Aztecan) and Tacana (Takanan, Amazonian Bolivia). The book is concluded by two chapters devoted to modeling cyclical processes in language change from different theoretical perspectives. Key notions discussed throughout the book include affirmative and negative existential constructions, the expansion of the latter into verbal negation, and subsequently from more specific to more general markers of negation. Nominalizations as well as the uses of negative existentials as standalone negative answers figure among the most frequent pathways whereby negative existentials evolve as general negation markers. The operation of the Negative Existential Cycle appears partly genealogically conditioned, as the cycle is found to iterate regularly within some families but never starts in others, as is the case in Bantu. In addition, other special negation markers such as nominal negators are found to undergo similar processes, i.e. they expand into the verbal domain and thereby develop into more general negation markers. The book provides rich information on a specific path of the evolution of negation, on cyclical processes in language change, and it show-cases the historical-comparative method in a modern setting.
The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Gussenhoven |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 957 |
Release | 2021-01-07 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0198832230 |
This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.