A Grammar Of Nese

Author : Lana Grelyn Takau
Publisher : Asia-Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 : 9781760465551
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Nese written by Lana Grelyn Takau and published by Asia-Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nese is a dying Oceanic language spoken on the island of Malekula, in northern Vanuatu. This book, based on first-hand fieldwork data, and without adhering to any particular syntactic framework, presents a synchronic grammatical description of Nese's phonology and syntax. Despite being on the verge of extinction, with fewer than 20 living speakers, the language displays intriguing properties--including but not exclusive to the cross-linguistically rare apicolabial phonemes, interesting vowel-raising patterns in some word classes, and a discontinuous negation relationship that is obligatorily expressed with the irrealis mood marker. This book will probably be the last work published on Nese.

Author : Lana Grelyn Takau
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760465569
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Nese written by Lana Grelyn Takau and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nese is a dying Oceanic language spoken on the island of Malekula, in northern Vanuatu. This book, based on first-hand fieldwork data, and without adhering to any particular syntactic framework, presents a synchronic grammatical description of Nese’s phonology and syntax. Despite being on the verge of extinction, with fewer than 20 living speakers, the language displays intriguing properties—including but not exclusive to the cross-linguistically rare apicolabial phonemes, interesting vowel-raising patterns in some word classes, and a discontinuous negation relationship that is obligatorily expressed with the irrealis mood marker. This book will probably be the last work published on Nese.

Author : Julie Barbour
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311028961X
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Neverver written by Julie Barbour and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110726880X
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.

Author : Adley Hooke Cummins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of the Old Friesic Language written by Adley Hooke Cummins and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William D. Davies
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110224445
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Madurese written by William D. Davies and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madurese is a major regional language of Indonesia, with some 14 million speakers, mainly on the island of Madura and adjacent parts of Java, making it the fourth largest language of Indonesia after Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese. There is no existing comprehensive descriptive grammar of the language, with existing studies being either sketches of the whole grammar, or detailed descriptions of phonology and morphology or some particular topics within these components of the grammar. There is no competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of this grammar, in particular (though not exclusively) with regard to syntax.

Author : Felix Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of the Burman Language written by Felix Carey and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeroen Wiedenhof
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267758
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Mandarin written by Jeroen Wiedenhof and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Takamitsu Muraoka
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004305025
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic written by Takamitsu Muraoka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendices -- Index of passages -- Index of subjects -- Tables of loan-words -- Concordance of principal editions -- Individual scribes and dates -- List of technical terms.

Author : Mauro Tosco
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004544291
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Piedmontese written by Mauro Tosco and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cerea, madamin, andoma bin? Less than a century ago, this was one of the most frequent greetings heard in Piedmont, a region in northwest Italy. Today, however, Piedmontese is severely endangered. This volume presents the first widely accessible and comprehensive grammatical description of the contemporary koine, covering its phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and typology, and drawing examples from both oral and written sources. Data on the history of the language and the local dialects and notes on revitalization efforts are also included.