Object And Absolutive In Halkomelem Salish Rle Linguistics F World Linguistics

Author : Donna B. Gerdts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317918088
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Object and Absolutive in Halkomelem Salish (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics) written by Donna B. Gerdts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats aspects of the syntax of Halkomelem, a Salish language spoken in southwestern British Columbia, specifically those constructions which involve objects, and seeks to accomplish two goals. First, it provides natural language fodder for the debate concerning the nature of grammatical relations and their place in syntactic theory. Second, by showing that Halkomelem draws from a familiar class of universal constructions and organizes its syntax around some simple and common parameters, the author has brought the Salish languages, which due to their phonological and morphological complexity seemed particularly fearsome, into cross-linguistic perspective.

Author : Donna B. Gerdts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131791807X
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book Object and Absolutive in Halkomelem Salish (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics) written by Donna B. Gerdts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats aspects of the syntax of Halkomelem, a Salish language spoken in southwestern British Columbia, specifically those constructions which involve objects, and seeks to accomplish two goals. First, it provides natural language fodder for the debate concerning the nature of grammatical relations and their place in syntactic theory. Second, by showing that Halkomelem draws from a familiar class of universal constructions and organizes its syntax around some simple and common parameters, the author has brought the Salish languages, which due to their phonological and morphological complexity seemed particularly fearsome, into cross-linguistic perspective.

Author : Donna B. Gerdts
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Download or read book Object and Absolutive in Halkomelem Salish written by Donna B. Gerdts and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199255911
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Atlas of Language Structures written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description ofthe structural feature in question.The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to bewithout it.

Author : Donna Blanche Gerdts
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Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book Object and Absolutive in Halkomelem Salish written by Donna Blanche Gerdts and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Esther Torrego
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262700689
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dependencies of Objects written by Esther Torrego and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph investigates the nature, properties, and consequences of the grammatical constraints that yield overt marking of objects in a variety of languages. The author, working within the Minimalist Program, concentrates on the syntactic and semantic behaviors of a particular class of objects: objects morphologically marked by the dative preposition in Romance languages, especially in several Spanish dialects, with consideration of similar phenomena in other languages. The central questions addressed revolve around the syntactic derivations that have accusative and dative complements and the role played by "doubling" clitics in these derivations. The analysis, concerned primarily with Case theory, unifies syntactic phenomena by isolating the grammatical factors that yield structures with accusative and dative objects. The monograph also includes an extended discussion of some classical themes of syntactic theory in the Romance languages, including asymmetries in the wh-movement of objects with clitics, and causatives. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 34

Author : William D. Davies
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402000652
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Objects and Other Subjects written by William D. Davies and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-10-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.

Author : Brent Douglas Galloway
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945182
Total Pages : 1729 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem written by Brent Douglas Galloway and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 1729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

Author : Kaoru Kiyosawa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004185402
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book Salish Applicatives written by Kaoru Kiyosawa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicative constructions in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. The historical development and discourse function of applicatives are elucidated and placed in typological perspective.

Author : Rose-Marie Dechaine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118101596
Total Pages : 384 pages
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