Tigrinya Reader and Grammar
Author: Mulugeta Girmay Melles
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 440
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Tigrinya Grammar
Author: John S. Mason
Publisher: Red Sea Press(NJ)
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTigrinya Grammar
Author: John S. Mason
Publisher: Red Sea Press(NJ)
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook is suitable for anyone wishing to study Tigrinya - the most widely used of the various languages spoken in Eritrea which is also used in the neighbouring Tigrai region of Ethiopia and some parts of Begemeder and Wollo. Originally conceived by the Intermission Language Council in 1968, this new edition has been updated and revised to reflect the demands of modern times.
Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices
Author: Massimiliano Spotti
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-04-03
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 3030887235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education and the development of policies at all levels and across the globe in this sometimes over-policed field. It particularly focuses on language policy analysis in which both the top-down institutional and the bottom-up ethnographic dimensions are blended, and in which globalization is the main macro-perspective. The chapters describe sensitive tools for investigating, unravelling and understanding the grey space connecting formal language policies to informal politics and practices of language on the ground.
Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization
Author: Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9004370021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking study examines the historical development of the Semitic languages from the point of view of grammaticalization, the linguistic process whereby lexical items and constructions lose their lexical meaning and serve grammatical functions.
The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels
Author: Benjamin Suchard
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 900439026X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels investigates the sound changes affecting the Proto-Northwest-Semitic vocalic phonemes and their reflexes in Tiberian Biblical Hebrew. Contrary to many previous approaches, Benjamin Suchard shows that these developments can all be described as phonetically regular sound laws. This confirms that despite its unique transmission history, Hebrew behaves like other languages in this regard. Many Hebrew sound changes have traditionally been explained as reflecting non-phonetic conditioning. These include the Canaanite Shift of *ā to *ō, tonic and pre-tonic lengthening, diphthong contraction, Philippi’s Law, the Law of Attenuation, and the apocope of short, unstressed vowels. By reconsidering reconstructions and re-evaluating phonetic conditions, this work shows how the Biblical Hebrew forms regularly derive from their Proto-Northwest-Semitic precursors.
Egyptian, Semitic and General Grammar
Author: גדעון גולדנברג
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Proceedings of a workshop conducted on 8-12 July 2001 at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities commemorating the 10th anniversary of Polotsky's death -- Introduction"--OCLC.
A History of African Linguistics
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.
Nurturing Language
Author: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2022-11-07
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 3110727145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-30
Total Pages: 1661
ISBN-13: 1316790665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.
