A Grammar Of Xong

Author : Adam Sposato
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110764938
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Xong written by Adam Sposato and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that Miao-Yao (or Hmong-Mien) is one of the major language families of East and Southeast Asia, this work is only the second full-length descriptive grammar of any Miao-Yao language published in English. It focuses on Xong, a language belonging to the Miao branch of the family. Xong has approximately 900,000 speakers, the vast majority lives in Hunan and Guizhou Provinces in South-Central China. In particular, this description concentrates on several fully mutually intelligible Xong varieties spoken in Fenghuang County, located in the Hunan Province. In producing this work, the author primarily relies on the fieldwork data he collected over a period of ten months in Fenghuang County. He also made use of many of the previously published Chinese-language descriptions of Xong. The results are of use to scholars with an interest in the Miao-Yao family in particular or in the languages of East and Southeast Asia more in general.

Author : Kirill Babaev
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004461086
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of May written by Kirill Babaev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the 2018 Russian language monograph by Babaev and Samarina, this the only grammar in English of any small Vietic (Austroasiatic) language; it describes and analyses May in remarkable detail.

Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110558149
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia written by Paul Sidwell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Author : Nicklas N. Bahrt
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961103194
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voice syncretism written by Nicklas N. Bahrt and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific patterns of voice syncretism, their distribution and development. The book is based on a survey of voice syncretism in 222 geographically and genealogically diverse languages, but also thoroughly revisits previous research on the phenomenon. Voice syncretism is approached systematically by establishing and exploring patterns of voice syncretism that can logically be posited for the seven voices of focus in the book: 21 simplex patterns when one considers two of the seven voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal syncretism), and 99 complex patterns when one considers more than two of the voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal-anticausative syncretism). In a similar vein, 42 paths of development can logically be posited if it is assumed that voice marking in each of the seven voices can potentially develop one of the other six voice functions (e.g. reflexive voice marking developing a reciprocal function). This approach enables the discussion of both voice syncretism that has received considerable attention in the literature (notably middle syncretism involving the reflexive, reciprocal, anticausative and/or passive voices) and voice syncretism that has received little or not treatment in the past (including seemingly contradictory patterns such as causative-anticausative and passive-antipassive syncretism). In the survey almost all simplex patterns are attested in addition to seventeen complex patterns. In terms of diachrony, evidence is presented and discussed for twenty paths of development. The book strives to highlight the variation found in voice syncretism across the world’s languages and encourage further research into the phenomenon.

Author : Chris Shei
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000574504
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics written by Chris Shei and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Asian languages should be conceptualized as a whole, the distinct characteristics of each language group, and the relationships and results of interactions between the languages and language families in Asia. Asia is the largest and the most populous continent on Earth, and the site of many of the first civilizations. This Handbook aims to provide a systematic overview of Asian languages in both theoretical and functional perspectives, optimally combining the two in intercultural settings. In other words, the text will provide a reference for researchers of individual Asian languages or language groups against the background of the entire range of Asian languages. Not only does the Handbook act as a reference to a particular language, it also connects each language to other Asian languages in the perspective of the entire Asian continent. Cultural roles and communicative functions of language are also emphasized as an important domain where the various Asian languages interact and shape each other. With extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied linguistic topics, The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics is an indispensable resource for students and researchers working in this area.

Author : Laurence C. Thompson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824811174
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Vietnamese Reference Grammar written by Laurence C. Thompson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1988-07-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Laurence Thompson's original Vietnamese Grammar first appeared in 1965, it went almost instantly to the top of the list of required reading for serious students of the Vietnamese language. It has stayed there ever since but, in recent years, the title has become almost impossible to find, either in bookstores or in libraries, where original copies have often grown woefully ragged and marked up or are now simply missing. In the meanwhile, the author has become aware of a number of minor infelicities and typographical errors requiring correction. Thus, both demand and scholarship have dictated this re-edition." -From the Editor's Note

Author : C. J. F. S. Forbes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338544652X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Grammar of the Languages of Further India. A Fragment and Other Essays, the Literary Remains of the Late Capt. C.J.F.S. Forbes written by C. J. F. S. Forbes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Joseph Edkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese written by Joseph Edkins and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Latter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of the Language of Burmah written by Thomas Latter and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Snelling Popkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of the Greek Language written by John Snelling Popkin and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: