A Grammar Of Cupeno

Author : Jane H. Hill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520246373
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Cupeño written by Jane H. Hill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most thorough studies ever prepared of a California language, Hill’s grammar reviews the phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse features of Cupeño, a Uto-Aztecan (takic) language of California. Cupeño exhibits many unusual typological features, including split ergativity, that require linguists to revise our understanding of the development of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages in historical and areal perspective.

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804738521
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Cognitive Grammar written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. This volume suggests how to use the theoretical tools presented in Volume One.

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Total Pages : 1206 pages
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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Bright
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810815476
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of the Languages of Native California written by William Bright and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, annotated listing of over a thousand books, monographs, and articles containing substantive information on all the American Indian languages of California and closely related languages outside its boundaries. Important book reviews are included, as are unpublished theses and dissertations. The main listing is by author, with cross-references for co-author. A single index, which refers back to the main listing by item numbers, lists general works; names of dialects, languages, and language families; and miscellaneous topics.

Author : Christopher Moseley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135796408
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages written by Christopher Moseley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen particularly in the past decade, as a result of the impact of globalization. This book appears as an answer to a felt need: to catalogue and describe those languages, making up the vast majority of the world's six thousand or more distinct tongues, which are in danger of disappearing within the next few decades. Endangerment is a complex issue, and the reasons why so many of the world's smaller, less empowered languages are not being passed on to future generations today are discussed in the book's introduction. The introduction is followed by regional sections, each authored by a notable specialist, combining to provide a comprehensive listing of every language which, by the criteria of endangerment set out in the introduction, is likely to disappear within the next few decades. These languages make up ninety per cent of the world's remaining language stocks. Each regional section comprises an introduction that deals with problems of language preservation peculiar to the area, surveys of known extinct languages, and problems of classification. The introduction is followed by a list of all known languages within the region, endangered or not, arranged by genetic affiliation, with endangered and extinct languages marked. This listing is followed by entries in alphabetical order covering each language listed as endangered. Useful maps are provided to pinpoint the more complex clusters of smaller languages in every region of the world. The Encyclopedia therefore provides in a single resource: expert analysis of the current language policy situation in every multilingual country and on every continent, detailed descriptions of little-known languages from all over the world, and clear alphabetical entries, region by region, of all the world's languages currently thought to be in danger of extinction. The Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages will be a necessary addition to all academic linguistics collections and will be a useful resource for a range of readers with an interest in development studies, cultural heritage and international affairs.

Author : Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110198967
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World written by Harry van der Hulst and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In part I of this volume, experts on various language areas provide surveys of word stress/accent systems of as many languages in 'their' part of the world as they could lay their hands on. No preconditions (theoretical or otherwise) were set, but the authors were encouraged to use the StressTyp data in their chapters. Australian Languages (Rob Goedemans), Austronesian Languages (Ellen van Zanten, Ruben Stoel and Bert Remijsen), Papuan Languages (Ellen van Zanten and Philomena Dol), North American Languages (Keren Rice), South American Languages (Sergio Meira and Leo Wetzels), African Languages (Laura Downing), European Languages (Harry van der Hulst), Asian Languages (Harry van der Hulst and René Schiering), Middle Eastern Languages (Harry van der Hulst and Sam Hellmuth). There is an introductory chapter (Chapter 1) that will provide the reader with elementary terminology and theoretical tools to understand the variety of accentual systems that will be discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Chapter 2 has a double function. It presents an overview of stress patterns in Australian languages, but at the same time it is intended to (re-)familiarize readers with the coding, terminology and theoretical ideas of the StressTyp database. Chapter 11 presents statistical and typological information from the StressTyp database. Part II of this volume contains 'language profiles' which are, for each of the 511 languages contained in StressTyp (in 2009), extracts from the information that is contained in the database. This volume will be of interest to people in the field of theoretical phonology and language typology. It will function as a reference work for these groups of researchers, but also, more generally, for people working on syntax and other fields of linguistics, who might wish to know certain basic facts about the distribution of word accent systems

Author : N. J. Enfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191581798
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Ethnosyntax : Explorations in Grammar and Culture written by N. J. Enfield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh and original approach to the 'ethnosyntax' concept - the proposition that the grammar of a language is intimately linked to the culture of its speakers. It focuses on three related questions: how far culture accounts for linguistic variation; how culture and grammar are connected; and to what extent one may constitute the other. It looks, for example, at the ways in which grammatical (including semantic) resources may be constrained by social values, and at the possible sociocultural significance of grammatical devices. The chapters add up to an important and timely contribution to the renewed debate among linguists and anthropologists on the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition. The authors represent a wide range of research traditions, some of which have not until now explicitly addressed the grammar and culture issue. They consider the subject in the context of a wide range of cultures in North America, Europe, and Australasia. The clarity and accessibility of their writing, together with Dr Enfield's introduction to the field, make this not only a work or original value and impeccable scholarship, but an excellent modern textbook on a subject of enduring fascination in linguistics and anthropology.

Author : Martin Pütz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027221421
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Contact and Language Conflict written by Martin Pütz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of intercultural communication. The first part is devoted to theoretical aspects related to the interaction of language and culture and deals with the issue from anthropological, cognitive, and linguistic points of view. Part II raises issues of language policy and language planning such as the manipulation of language in intercultural contact; it includes case studies pertaining to multilingual settings, for example in Africa, Australia, Melanesia, and Europe. The volume opens with a foreword by Dell H. Hymes.

Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2006 pages
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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 864 pages
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Download or read book University of California Publications in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: