A Grammar Of Teiwa

Author : Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110226065
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Teiwa written by Margaretha Anna Flora Klamer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in estern Indonesia. It has approximately 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. The genetic relationship between the Alor-Pantar languages and other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan outliers. This volume presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The grammar is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and world lists (Teiwa-English/English-Teiwa) are included

Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783111741253
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Teiwa written by Marian Klamer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia. It has approximately 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. The genetic relationship between the Alor-Pantar languages and other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan neighbors on the New Guinea mainland, they are the most distant westerly Papuan outliers. This volume presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The grammar is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and word lists (Teiwa-English / English-Teiwa) are included.

Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110226073
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Teiwa written by Marian Klamer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia, located just north of Timor island. It has approx. 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. While the non-Austronesian languages of the Alor-Pantar archipelago are clearly related to each other, as indicated by the many apparent cognates and the very similar pronominal paradigms found across the group, their genetic relationship to other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan neighbors on the New Guinea mainland, the Alor-Pantar languages are the most distant westerly Papuan outliers. A grammar of Teiwa presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The book is structured as a reference grammar: after a general introduction on the language, it speakers and the linguistic situation on Alor and Pantar, the grammar builds up from a description of the language's phonology and word classes to its larger grammatical constituents and their mutual relations: nominal phrases, serial verb constructions, clauses, clause combinations, and information structure. While many Papuan languages are morphologically complex, Teiwa is almost analytic: it has only one paradigm of object marking prefixes, and one verbal suffix marking realis status. Other typologically interesting features of the language include: (i) the presence of uvular fricatives and stops, which is atypical for languages of eastern Indonesia; (ii) the absence of trivalent verbs: transitive verbs select a single (animate or inanimate) object, while the additional participant is expressed with a separate predicate; and (iii) the absence of morpho-syntactically encoded embedded clauses. A grammar of Teiwa is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and word lists (Teiwa-English / English-Teiwa) are included.

Author : Eline Visser
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961103437
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A grammar of Kalamang written by Eline Visser and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast of Bomberai Peninsula. This work is the first comprehensive grammar of a Papuan language in the Bomberai area. It is based on eleven months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a corpus of more than 15 hours of spoken Kalamang recorded and transcribed between 2015 and 2019. This grammar covers a wide range of topics beyond a phonological and morphosyntactic description, including prosody, narrative styles, and information structure. More than 1000 examples illustrate the analyses, and are where possible taken from naturalistic spoken Kalamang. The descriptive approach in this grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, but is not driven by any specific school of thought. Comparison to other West Bomberai or eastern Indonesian languages is taken into account whenever it is deemed helpful. Kalamang has several typologically interesting features, such as unpredictable stress, minimalistic give-constructions consisting of just two pronouns, aspectual markers that follow the subject, and the NP and predicate – rather than the noun and verb – as important domains of attachment. This grammar is accompanied by an openly accessible archive of linguistic and cultural material and a dictionary with 2700 lemmas. It serves as a document of one of the world's many endangered languages.

Author : Sean Allison
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004422676
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Makary Kotoko written by Sean Allison and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Grammar of Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison provides a thorough description of Makary Kotoko - a Chadic language of Cameroon, framing the discussion within R.M.W. Dixon’s functional/typological approach known as Basic Linguistic Theory.

Author : Anne Storch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270635
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Number – Constructions and Semantics written by Anne Storch and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the world’s languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of ‘number’ in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world.

Author : Antoinette Schapper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501151
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 1 written by Antoinette Schapper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are a group of related "Papuan outliers," which until recently were largely undocumented. This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the unique and diverse grammars of the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages.

Author : Antoinette Schapper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511076
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 3 written by Antoinette Schapper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes present sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the islands of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Together they give an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the unique and diverse grammars of the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages, a family of 'Papuan outliers' located at the western perimeter of Melanesia. While largely undescribed until recently, the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are now among the most intensively studied Papuan families. In this third volume, five new sketches of members of the family are presented, all written by specialist linguists on the basis of original field work.

Author : Ranko Matasović
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108420974
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems written by Ranko Matasović and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world's languages.

Author : Alessandra Barotto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027254885
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective written by Alessandra Barotto and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches that grammar is shaped by discourse use, systematic typological cross-linguistic investigations on discourse phenomena are relatively rare. This volume aims at bridging this gap, by integrating different linguistic subfields, such as discourse analysis, pragmatics, and typology. The contributions, both theoretically and empirically oriented, focus on a broad variety of discourse phenomena (ranging from discourse markers to discourse function of grammatical markers, to strategies that manage the discourse and information flow) while adopting a typological perspective and considering typologically distant languages.