A Grammar Of Kambaata Ethiopia Phonology Nominal Morphology And Non Verbal Predication

Author : Yvonne Treis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783896454843
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Kambaata (Ethiopia): Phonology, nominal morphology, and non-verbal predication written by Yvonne Treis and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronny Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191044253
Total Pages : 1425 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages written by Ronny Meyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent parts are dedicated to the four major language families in Ethiopia - Cushitic, Ethiosemitic, Nilo-Saharan, and Omotic - and contain studies of individual languages, with an initial introductory overview chapter in each part. Both major and less-documented languages are included, ranging from Amharic and Oromo to Zay, Gawwada, and Yemsa. The final part explores languages that are outside of those four families, namely Ethiopian Sign Language, Ethiopian English, and Arabic. With its international team of senior researchers and junior scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages will appeal to anyone interested in the languages of the region and in African linguistics more broadly.

Author : Andrea Hollington
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027249229
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropological Linguistics written by Andrea Hollington and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehensive volume dedicated to the anthropological linguistics of Africa has yet been published. This volume seeks to fill this gap. The chapters address a broad range of topics in anthropological linguistics, including classic themes such as spatial reference, color, kin terms, and emotion, as well as emerging interests in the linguistic expression of personhood, sociality, and language ideology. All contributions are based on original empirical research and present insights into African language practices from a sociocultural perspective. The volume showcases research on dozens of African languages spoken across the continent, with particular emphasis on languages of East Africa. This book will be of interest to areal specialists as well as to anthropological linguists worldwide.

Author : Walter Bisang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110712792
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific written by Walter Bisang and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.

Author : Osamu Hieda
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027273952
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas written by Osamu Hieda and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social, cultural, and linguistic interaction that characterizes Africa's linguistic geography. Most contributors to the volume discuss language contact and areal diffusion in Africa, although some demonstrate, with examples from non-African linguistic data, including Amazonian and European languages, how language contact may lead to structural convergence. Others investigate contact phenomena in social-cultural behavior. The volume makes a large contribution toward bringing generalized theory to data-oriented discussions. It is intended to stimulate further research on contact phenomena in Africa. For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.

Author : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139789724
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Features written by Greville G. Corbett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the nature of language. Familiar features are Number (singular, plural, dual, ...), Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and Tense (present, past, ...). Features have a major role in contemporary linguistics, from the most abstract theorizing to the most applied computational applications, yet little is firmly established about their status. They are used, but are little discussed and poorly understood. In this unique work, Corbett brings together two lines of research: how features vary between languages and how they work. As a result, the book is of great value to the broad range of perspectives of those who are interested in language.

Author : Yvonne Treis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265976
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Similative and Equative Constructions written by Yvonne Treis and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While comparative constructions have been extensively studied in the past decades, the expression of equality and similarity has so far attracted little attention in the typological literature. The fifteen contributions assembled in this volume study similative and equative constructions in typologically and genetically distant languages, albeit with a focus on Africa, and from a range of perspectives. Purely synchronically oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that also shed light on the diachronic development of similative and equative constructions in language contact situations. Sources of similative morphemes and lexically expressed concepts of likeness are examined, and little-known multifunctionality patterns and grammaticalisation targets of similative morphemes – such as purpose clause markers, modality morphemes and markers of glottonyms – are discussed. Based on a sample of 119 languages worldwide, a new typology of equative constructions is proposed. The book should be of interest to typologists, semanticists, specialists of grammaticalization, historical linguistics and syntax.

Author : Joachim Crass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deictics, Copula and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area written by Joachim Crass and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers Cushitic, Omotic and Semitic.

Author : Firew Girma Worku
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004449914
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Mursi written by Firew Girma Worku and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 14 descriptive chapters and a collection of 4 transcribed texts in Mursi, a highly endangered language spoken in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia.

Author : Derib Ado
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260249
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages written by Derib Ado and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and sociolinguistic puzzle to researchers, have received ample coverage. And for the first time in the history of Ethiopian linguistics, two chapters are dedicated to descriptive studies of Ethiopian Sign Language, as well as two studies on acoustic phonetics. Topics range over a wide spectrum of issues covering the lexicon, sociolinguistics, socio-cultural aspects and micro-linguistic studies on the phonology, morphology and syntax of Ethiopian languages.