A Tagmemic Sketch of Mapuche Grammar
Author: Maria Rayen Catrileo Chiguailaf
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 164
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Author: Maria Rayen Catrileo Chiguailaf
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ineke Smeets
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-12-10
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 3110211793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMapuche is the language of the Mapuche (or Araucanians), the native inhabitants of central Chile. The Mapuche language, also called Mapudungu, is spoken by about 400,000 people in Chile and 40,000 in Argentina. The Mapuche people, estimated at about one million, constitute the majority of the Chilean indigenous population. The history of the Mapuche is the story of passionate fighters who managed to stop the Inca's but succumbed to the Spanish invaders after two and a half century of warfare. The relationship of the Mapuche language with other Amerindian languages has not yet been established. Mapuche is a highly agglutinative language with a complex verbal morphology. This book offers a comprehensive and detailed description of the Mapuche language. It contains a grammar (phonology, morphology and syntax), a collection of texts (stories, conversations and songs) with morphological analyses and free translations, and a Mapuche-English dictionary with a large number of derivations and examples. The grammar is preceded by a socio-historical sketch of the Mapuche people and a brief discussion of previous studies of the Mapuche language. The material for the description was collected by the author with the help of five Mapuche speakers with attention to the dialectal differences between them. The abundance of thoroughly analysed examples makes for a lively decription of the language. The intricacy of the verbal morphology will arouse the interest not only of those who practice Amerindian linguistics but also of those who are interested in language theory and language typology.
Author: Hiroyuki Ura
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-01-06
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0195353404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUra demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's Agr-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for a wide range of data drawn from a variety of languages in a very consistent way with a limited set of parameters.
Author: Michael Hammond
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9027228922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed universal generalizations, and discussions concerning the explanation of universals. The volume will be of great interest to researchers in syntax and in language universals. In addition, scholars in pragmatics, philosophy of linguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics and semantics will also find articles of interest in the book.
Author: Eleanor Greet Cotton
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2001-11-14
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780878403608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis encyclopedic text focuses on the nature of Hispanic dialects, the spread of Spanish, and contemporary Spanish dialects in the Americas.
Author: Catharina Johanna Maria Antoinette Smeets
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 680
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 682
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ralph E. Cooley
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 532
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