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Author: Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-04-26
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521635660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book guides students through the basic concepts involved in syntactic analysis and goes on to prepare them for further work in any syntactic theory, using examples from a range of phenomena in human languages. It also includes a chapter on theories of syntax.
Author: Robert D. Van Valin (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-12-11
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 9780521499156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to syntactic theory and analysis.
Author: Marianne Mithun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-06-07
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780521298759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Author: Laurel A. Sutton
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0198029187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irène Baron
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9789027229519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew linguistic concepts are more elusive than 'possession'. The present collection of articles, selected from an international workshop held in Copenhagen in May 1998, confronts the subject from several angles (lexicon; the semantics of possession and the verb HAVE; the syntax of genitives and other possessive structures; the interaction of verbal and nominal constructions; the semantic and textual implications of the alienable/inalienable distinction, etc.) and approaches (formal semantics; functional semantics; and syntax as diachronic and typological comparisons). The languages covered include both European languages such as Danish, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin, and several American, Australian, African and Asian languages. This volume in which the contributing scholars have sought to examine as many 'dimensions' as possible is of interest to all linguists, in particular those working in the field of typology and functional approaches to language.
Author: James M. Wilce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-09
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0521864178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language.
Author: Eugene Buechel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published:
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780803262690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most complete and up-to-date dictionary of Lakota available, this new edition of Eugene Buechel's classic dictionary contains over thirty thousand entries and will serve asøan essential resource for everyone interested in preserving, speaking, and writing the Lakota language today. This new comprehensive edition has been reorganized to follow a standard dictionary format and offers a range of useful features: both Lakota-to-English and English-to-Lakota sections; the grouping of principal parts of verbs; the translation of all examples of Lakota word usage; the syllabification of each entry word, followed by its pronunciation; and a lucid overview of Lakota grammar. This monumental new edition celebrates the vitality of the Lakota language today and will be a valuable resource for students and teachers alike.
Author: William C. Sturtevant
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEncyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples.
Author: Betty Devriendt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-10-18
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 3110815893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Soteria Svorou
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 1994-04-06
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9027276579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding and expression of spatial relations centers around the emergence and evolution of spatial grams, and the semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics of two types of spatial grams. The author bases her observations on the study of data from 26 genetically unrelated and randomly selected languages. It is shown that languages are similar in the way spatial grams emerge and evolve, and also in the way specific types of spatial grams are used to express not only spatial but also temporal and other non-spatial relations. Motivation for these similarities may lie in the way we, as human beings, experience the world, which is constrained by our physical configuration and neurophysiological apparatus, as well as our individual cultures.
