An Introductory Grammar of the Sena Language
Author: W. G. Anderson
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 74
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Author: W. G. Anderson
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. G. Anderson
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Published: 1897
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. G. Anderson
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9783862901005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. G. ANDERSON (of the Lower Zambesi Mission.)
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 61
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alice Werner
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clement M. Doke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-20
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1351601555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1945, this volume represented the first to classify Bantu languages. This volume does not record all the dialects but makes reference to those in which some grammatical study has been done and classifies them according to mainly geographical zones. Owing to tribal migrations, individual members of a particular zone may be living among members of a different zone (as has been the case with the Ngoni, South-Eastern Zone, who are found among the Eastern Bantu), but the zone label is taken from the habitat of the majority.
Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1108417973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Author: Harry Johnston
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 846
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Otto Zwartjes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9027246084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local languages. A great wealth of missionary grammars survives from the 16th century onwards. Some of these are precious records of the languages they document, and all of them witness their authors' attempts to develop the methods of grammatical description with which they were familiar, to accommodate dramatically new linguistic features.This book is the first monograph covering the whole Portuguese grammatical tradition outside Portugal. Its aim is to provide an integrated description, analysis and evaluation of the missionary grammars which were written in Portuguese. Between them, these grammars covered a huge range of languages: in Asia, Tamil, four Indo-Aryan languages and Japanese; in Brazil, Kipeá and Tupinambá; in Africa and the African diaspora, Kimbundu and Sena (from the modern Angola and Mozambique respectively).Each text is placed in its historical context, and its linguistic context is analyzed, with particular attention to orthography, the parts of speech system, morphology and syntax. Whenever possible, pedagogical features of the grammars are discussed, together with their treatment of language variation and pragmatics, and the evidence they provide for the missionaries' attitude towards the languages they studied.