Clause Linkage In Ket

Author : Volker Gast
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110280698
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective written by Volker Gast and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is a collection of thirteen papers given at the “Third Syntax of the World’s Languages” conference, complemented with four additional papers as well as an introduction by the editors. All contributions deal with clause combining, focusing on one or both of the following two dimensions of analysis: properties of the clauses involved, types of dependency. The studies are data-driven and have a cross-linguistic or typological orientation. In addition to survey papers the volume contains in-depth studies of particular languages, mostly based on original data collected in recent field work.

Author : Anja Behnke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004684778
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area written by Anja Behnke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic constructions. The data-driven approaches focus on areal differences and similarities in using non-finite verb forms in complex sentences in languages situated in Central and Western Siberia.

Author : Edward J. Vajda
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290946
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages written by Edward J. Vajda and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region’s language isolates, such as Ket and Ainu. No general study has surveyed complex sentences across Northern Eurasia and the Pacific Rim, an area noted both for its complicated web of language contact phenomena and its long-established genetic divisions. The 14 chapters in this volume survey synthetic and analytic methods of subordination and coordination. Much of the data reflect original fieldwork, and several chapters focus on critically endangered languages. Nearly every family or isolate in North Asia is taken into consideration, as are all major formal and functional types of complex sentence formation.

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199567220
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of Clause Linking written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the grammatical means languages employ to represent a set of semantic relations between clauses. Professor Dixon's opening discussion is followed by fourteen case studies of languages ranging from Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's concluding synthesis is provided by Professor Aikhenvald.

Author : Walter Bisang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110563142
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia written by Walter Bisang and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 670 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 : Isabelle Bril
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027205884
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy written by Isabelle Bril and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume explores clause-linkage strategies in a cross-linguistic perspective with greater emphasis on subordination. Part I presents some theoretical reassessment of syntactic terminologies and distinctive criteria for subordination, as well as typological methods based on sets of variables and statistics allowing cross-linguistic comparability. Part II deals with strategies relating to clause-chaining, conjunctive conjugations, converbial constructions, masdars. Part III centers on the interaction between the syntax, pragmatics, and semantics of clause-linking and subordination, in relation to informa-tional structure, to referential hierarchy, and correlative constructions. Part IV presents insights in the clause-linking and subordinating functions of some T.A.M. markers, verbal inflectional morphology and conjugation systems, which may also interact with informa-tional hierarchy, via the backgrounding effects and lack of illocutionary force of some aspect and mood forms. The volume is of particular interest to linguists and typologists working on clause-linkage systems and on the interface between syntax, pragmatics, and semantics.

Author : Edward Vajda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111378381
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia written by Edward Vajda and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on family-internal subdivision and dialectal differentiation. Individual chapters trace the origins and expansion of the region’s widespread pastoral-based language groups as well as the microfamilies and isolates spoken by northern Asia’s surviving hunter-gatherers. Separate chapters cover sparsely recorded languages of early Inner Eurasia that defy precise classification and the various pidgins and creoles spread over the region. Other chapters investigate the typology of salient linguistic features of the area, including vowel harmony, noun inflection, verb indexing (also known as agreement), complex morphologies, and the syntax of complex predicates. Issues relating to genealogical ancestry, areal contact and language endangerment receive equal attention. With historical connections both to Eurasia’s pastoral-based empires as well as to ancient population movements into the Americas, the steppes, taiga forests, tundra and coastal fringes of northern Asia offer a complex and fascinating object of linguistic investigation.

Author : Bastian Persohn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3985541043
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The polyfunctionality of 'still' expressions written by Bastian Persohn and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressions from the semasiological domain of phasal polarity (ʻstillʼ, ʻalreadyʼ, etc.) tend to be highly polyfunctional, with their various uses often extending into a wide range of other linguistic domains, both time-related and non-temporal. Yet these patterns have hitherto been investigated mostly for individual languages or smaller groups. This volume presents the first ever larger-scale survey of the numerous functions of expressions whose meanings include the notion of ʻstill’, making use of a global sample of 76 varieties from 45 distinct phyla. It is aimed at semanticists, typologists and descriptive grammarians alike.

Author : Daniel Abondolo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317230973
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uralic Languages written by Daniel Abondolo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Uralic Languages, second edition, is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Uralic family. The Uralic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from Dalarna County in Sweden to Dudinka, Taimyr, Russia. There are currently approximately 50 languages in the group, the largest one among them being the state languages Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian; other Uralic languages covered in the book are South Saami, Skolt Saami, Võro, Moksha Mordvin, Mari, Udmurt, Zyrian Komi, Mansi, Khanty, Nganasan, Forest and Tundra Enets, Nenets, and Selkup. The book also contains a chapter on Finnic languages, the reconstruction of Uralic, the history of Uralic studies, connections of Uralic to other language families, and language names, demographics, and degrees of endangerment. This second and thoroughly revised edition updates and augments the authoritative accounts of the first edition and reflects recent and ongoing developments in linguistics and the languages themselves, as well as our further enhanced understanding of the relations and patterns of influence between them. Each chapter combines modern linguistic analysis and documentary linguistics; a relatively uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. Written by an international team of experts, The Uralic Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, folklore, and Siberian studies.

Author : Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479707
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Relative Clauses written by Guglielmo Cinque and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of languages, Cinque argues that all relative clause types derive from a single, double-headed, structure.