A Grammar of the Kui Language
Author: W. W. Winfield
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 379
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Author: W. W. Winfield
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 379
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. W. Winfield
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788120617759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. E. Friend Pereira
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luzac &co
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joan Bybee
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994-11-15
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0226086658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
Author: Murray B. Emeneau
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-11-21
Total Pages: 832
ISBN-13: 3110819503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mikhail Sergeevich Andronov
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9783447044554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDue to their crucial role one of the major tasks in modern South Asia linguistics is the research of the historical view of the Dravidian Languages. A knowledge of the Dravidian language structure in all its development stages, from their earliest beginnings to today, is necessary for understanding numerous fundamental aspects with the emergence of the indoarian, Munda and other languages of south Asia and of course for the history of the Dravidian language family itself. The Comparative Grammar forms an important part of the historical linguistics. Yet Richard Caldwell's Comparative Grammar of Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages (London, 1856, 2/1875, 3/1913) is outdated. An up to date comparative grammar of the Dravidian languages therefore was long overdue. With the work of the renowned Russian Dravidian scientist Mikhail S. Andronov, in which the over 80 known, investigated and described languages and dialects of the Dravidian language family are taken in consideration, this gap has been closed.
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 1100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: F B J Kuiper
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-04
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9004653767
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