Martuthunira
Author: Alan Charles Dench
Publisher: Department of Linguistics Research School of Pacific
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13:
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Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Author: Peter Austin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9027228876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point of view. The papers draw on data from widely distributed and, in some instances, previously undescribed languages. Among others descriptions of the (so-far) poorly known non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia, as well as Pama-Nyungan languages central and northern Australia are included in this volume.
Possession and Ownership
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0199660220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a wide range of languages. Like others in the series this pioneering book will be equally valued in linguistics and anthropology.
The Semantics of Clause Linking
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-08-06
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0199567220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a cross-linguistic examination of the grammatical means languages employ to represent a set of semantic relations between clauses. Professor Dixon's opening discussion is followed by fourteen case studies of languages ranging from Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's concluding synthesis is provided by Professor Aikhenvald.
Double Case
Author: Frans Plank
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 0195087755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains a collection of previously unpublished essays on an unusual and little-known pattern of case agreement in the noun phrase. The contributors examine the pattern as it occurs in a wide variety of languages.
Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780199283088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. Its distinguished authors investigate the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveal the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The chapters cover Ancient Anatolia, Modern Anatolia, Australia, Amazonia, Oceania, Southeast and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan. Africa. - ;Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the fo.
The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality
Author: Marie-Eve Ritz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1003803121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a comprehensive examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how a more informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic representations can offer unique insights into the temporal systems of languages. The volume takes as its point of departure the notion that tenses, aspectual viewpoint markers, and temporal expressions have a semantic meaning, which is further pragmatically enriched and manipulated in use by speakers. Building on this foundation, the book introduces current theories on the linguistic expression of temporality toward better highlighting the need for further understanding of PTEs, encompassing tenses of the present and words such as ‘now.’ The volume draws on data from Australian English and Indigenous Australian languages to support its goal of arriving at a theory of the flexibility of uses of PTEs and their centrality in language and highlight the implications for future research on pragmatic and semantic change. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and philosophy of language, as well as those interested in research on Indigenous Australian Languages and Australian English.
Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance
Author: Anneliese Kuhle
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018-11-28
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1498561225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTool Intelligence taps field-primatological and field-linguistic research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and Cognitive Science are given new incentives to search for cognitive homology in areas of extended problem awareness and manipulative intentionality.
Endangered Languages
Author: Sarah G. Thomason
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-23
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0521865735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to language endangerment. What is it? How and why does it happen? Why should we care?
Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World
Author: Simone Mattiola
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2019-04-24
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9027262586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants and/or spaces. Based on a 246-language sample, the main characteristics of pluractionality are described and discussed throughout the book. Firstly, a description of the functions that pluractional markers cross-linguistically express is presented and the relationships occurring among them are explained through the semantic map model. Then, the marking strategies that languages display to express such functions are illustrated and some issues concerning the formal identification are briefly discussed as well. The typological generalizations are corroborated showing how pluractional markers work in three specific languages (Akawaio, Beja, Maa). In conclusion, the theoretical conceptualization of pluractionality is discussed referring to the Radical Construction Grammar approach.
