A Grammar of Neverver
A Grammar of Neverver

Author: Julie Barbour

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 311028961X

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Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammar is of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.

A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia
A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-08-07

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13: 9780521826648

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A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.

A Grammar of Southern Min
A Grammar of Southern Min

Author: Weirong Chen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-02-10

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 1501511866

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Southern Min (also known as Hokkien or Minnan) is a major branch of Chinese spoken mainly in Fujian and Taiwan, but also in Guangdong, Hainan and Hong Kong, as well as in many countries of Southeast Asia. Highly conservative in its linguistic profile, it is considered by many scholars to be a living language fossil due to the preservation of many archaic features that reflect its long-lasting history and culture. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive study of Southern Min using a typological framework, as the tendency is to base analyses on the model of Mandarin Chinese, the standard language. This grammar aims to present a systematic description of the Hui'an variety of Southern Min, mainly based on data collected via naturally occurring conversation. The volume includes four parts: nominal structure, predicate structure, clause structure and complex sentences, as well as a brief overview of phonology. It will have great appeal for heritage speakers, graduate students and scholars in both Chinese linguistics and typology.

A Grammar of Mandarin
A Grammar of Mandarin

Author: Jeroen Wiedenhof

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9027267758

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A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed with examples from everyday conversations, it aims to let the language speak for itself. The book opens with an overview of the language situation and a thorough account of Mandarin speech sounds. Nine core chapters explore syntactic, morphological and lexical dimensions. A final chapter traces the Chinese character script from oracle-bone inscriptions to today’s digital pens. This work will cater to language learners and linguistic specialists alike. Easy reference is provided by more than eighty tables, figures, appendices, and a glossary. The main text is enriched by sections in finer print, offering further analysis and reflection. Example sentences are fully glossed, translated, and explained from diverse angles, with a keen eye for recent linguistic change. This grammar, in short, reveals a Mandarin language in full swing.

Toward a Grammar of Passages
Toward a Grammar of Passages

Author: Richard M. Coe

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0809314207

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Richard M. Coe has developed such a “grammar,” one which uses a simple graphic instrument to analyze the meaningful relationships between sentences in a passage and to clarify the function of structure in discourse. Working in the tradition of Christensen’s generative rhetoric, Coe presents a two-dimensional graphic matrix that effectively analyzes the logical relations between statements by mapping coordinate, subordinate, and superordinate relationships. Coe demonstrates the power of his discourse matrix by applying it to a variety of significant problems, such as how to demonstrate discourse differences between cultures (especially between Chinese and English), how to explain precisely what is “bad” about the structure of passages that do not work, and how best to teach structure. This new view of the structure of passages helps to articulate crucial questions about the relations between form and function, language, thought and culture, cognitive and social processes.

A grammar of Tuatschin
A grammar of Tuatschin

Author: Philippe Maurer-Cecchini

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published:

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 3961103186

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This book is the first descriptive grammar of Tuatschin, a Sursilvan Romansh dialect spoken by approximately 800 people in the westernmost part of the Romansh territory, in the canton of Grisons in southeastern Switzerland. The description is mainly based on narratives and elicitation, collected during fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2020. Besides the grammatical description, it also offers a variety of narratives produced by female and male native speakers between thirty and eighty years of age.