An Igala English Lexicon

Author : John Idakwoji
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482827883
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ígálá-English Lexicon written by John Idakwoji and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ígálá language, which is spoken in parts of Kògí, Énúgu, Ánámbra, Delta and Bénúé States of Nigeria, is one of the world’s increasingly endangered languages. Unless something changes soon, it will be lost forever. John Idakwoji spent more than thirty years researching the language so that he could share with the world its oceanic depth and the sacred, unique but under-exploited culture that it nurtures even in its seldom written, rarely described and sparsely documented state of being. The book takes the bull by the horns, as it equips Igala teachers and students with the tools they need to engage in practical learning and instruction. You’ll find: insights on the properties and characteristics of the language, including its alphabet, tones, grammar, parts of speech, dialects, loan-words, and more. features of the lexicon and how readers can recognize and use vocabulary. over five thousand head-words presented in alphabetical order and bearing diacritical marks, phonetic symbols, and tone marks to enable interested non-Igalas to read the book. Research-based information on Igala’s prehistoric origins and the three successive dynasties that have ruled the land bring a personal touch to the lexicon. There is a desperate need and a vociferous call for Ígáláà to be preserved, and An Ígálá-English Lexicon answers that clarion call with an impressive trove of data, analysis, and documentation.

Author : Idris Ejima Aruwa
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669813061
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings on Igala People, Land and Language written by Idris Ejima Aruwa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive history of the Igala kingdom (Kogi state, Nigeria), people, land and language based on the study of the oral traditions, cultural practices, articles, published and unpublished works on Igala history. It is a compendium of the history of the Igala people from the Pre-16th century to the present day using the Igala cultural and rituals practices as evidence of historical events. It is a scholarly work on the chronology of the events that led to the establishment of the present dynastic monarchy in Igala land and the creation of the Igala kingdom which became the greatest pre-colonial kingdom in the River Niger-Benue confluence area in Nigeria, with its influence on the cultural, political and commercial developments on the northern Igbo country and along the River Niger down to the Niger-Delta area. The chronology was discussed under three main eras; the Pre-Dynastic Monarchy Era, the Proto-Dynastic Monarchy Era and The Dynastic Monarchy Era. The events that took place in each of these eras were extensively reported. The book illustrates the cultural leadership development of the autochthonous Igala clans, the Benin vassal Aji-Ata dynasty, the Achadu clan and the Empire building escapades of Ayegba oma Idoko starting from his progenitor “Abutu-Ejeh” breakaway from the ancient Jukun led Kwararafa Kingdom. Other subjects discussed include; the real history behind the sacrifice of Princess Inikpi and Oma-Odoko, the funeral rites and coronation rituals for the Ata-Igala and the origin of the name “Igala”. This book is recommended for students of history and those who want to enrich their knowledge on Igala, people, land, language and other related cultural matters.

Author : Ejeba, Salem Ochala
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
ISBN 13 : 9785431185
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Igala written by Ejeba, Salem Ochala and published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book establishes 28 phonemic consonants and 7 vowels, as well as lexical and grammatical tones in Igala. It shows the canonical syllable types as V and CV with no complexity, and relates resyllabification to the retiming of segments as tone bearing units and the duration of their mora. The work discusses nine word classes, as well as ideophones and clitics in Igala. There are splitting verbs of various structures and fully-fledged pronouns with morphologically toneless clitic counterparts that are toned in their syntactic context, among other elements of the Igala morphology. The work establishes clitics as generally bearing the grammatical tones of various categories as a result of their morphological tonelessness and their availability for post-lexical tone assignment. It also accounts for the generally complex interaction of clitics and tones in the organisation of the morphosyntax and the tone-syntax interface. Igala has both verbal and nominal extensional affixes with various semantic features. Some interesting discussions in the Igala syntax include the structural and functional types of serial verb constructions, the detransitivizing process of verb movement in object demoting structures, coreferentiality in relativised constituents and the future/non-future temporal distinction. Complementary binominals are conjoined with a specified binominal morpheme, and their rigidly irreversible structures have implications in the Igala semantics. The binominals demonstrate a grammatically specified pattern defined over a conceptual space, showing the network among conceptual categories, such as kinship, marital, social, hunter-hunted, more-less and cause-effect relationships as reflected in the Igala grammar.

Author : James Donnegan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1164 pages
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Download or read book O new greek and english lexicon written by James Donnegan and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olga Karpova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443806455
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Lexicon, Lexicography, Terminography in Russian, American and Other Cultures written by Olga Karpova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a collection of works devoted to the most topical issues of modern linguistics, including сross-cultural communication, various aspects of theoretical and practical lexicography, terminology and terminography. Papers contributed are divided into four major sections. Cultural Aspects in Different Linguistic and Lexicographic Traditions deals with analysis of cultural aspects of language and lexicography with special reference to English, Russian, German, French, Arabic and other languages. User’s Perspective and Dictionary Use is devoted to discussion of research results in the field of user’s needs and demands received during social surveys in different countries. Terminology and Terminography reveals the latest tendencies in modern terminology formation, scientific knowledge engineering in languages for special purposes and professional communication, while New Dictionaries Projects presents models of new reference works. All those and many other topics were discussed at the VI-th International School-Seminar Lexicon, Lexicography, Terminography in Russian, American and Other Cultures held at Ivanovo State University, Russia, September 12-14, 2005.

Author : George DUNBAR (Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A new Greek and English, and English and Greek Lexicon, with an appendix explanatory of scientific terms, etc written by George DUNBAR (Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1262 pages
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary, written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9780195992922
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Total Pages : 190 pages
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Author : William Dwight Whitney
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Total Pages : 974 pages
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: