The Verb In Nyakyusa

Author : Bastian Persohn
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102945
Total Pages : 405 pages
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Download or read book The Verb in Nyakyusa written by Bastian Persohn and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.

Author : Bastian Persohn
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961100144
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The verb in Nyakyusa written by Bastian Persohn and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.

Author : Bastian Persohn
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ISBN 13 : 9783961100156
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book The Verb in Nyakyusa written by Bastian Persohn and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.

Author : Bastian Persohn
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013289729
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Verb in Nyakyusa written by Bastian Persohn and published by Saint Philip Street Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Lívia Körtvélyessy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111053377
Total Pages : 1351 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages written by Lívia Körtvélyessy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 1351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.

Author : Raija Kramer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110646293
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expression of Phasal Polarity in African Languages written by Raija Kramer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides insights into the systems and strategies of expressing the Phasal Polarity (PhP) concepts ALREADY, STILL, NOT YET and NO LONGER in African languages. Special emphasis is laid on careful examination of the functional spectrum and paradigmatic affiliation of PhP expressions. The book challenges hypotheses and established assumptions in the typological literature.

Author : Antoine Guillaume
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110692120
Total Pages : 702 pages
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Download or read book Associated Motion written by Antoine Guillaume and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.

Author : Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027211787
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages written by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.

Author : Parth Bhatt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027271070
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology written by Parth Bhatt and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the linguistic properties of specific Creole languages to each other and also to non-Creole languages. Using a variety of methodological and analytical approaches, the contributions to this volume show that the linguistic classification of Creole languages continues to be a topic of intense debate that requires the re-examination of the premises of linguistic typology. What is the linguistic motivation for considering that languages are related or unrelated? How and why do common linguistic properties arise? Are Creoles indeed exceptional? This volume examines these questions and provides a strong foundation for continued research into the phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic features found in Creole languages. Most of these articles were previously published in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011). The article by Jeff Good was previously published in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:1 (2012).

Author : Geoffrey Khan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783749504
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic written by Geoffrey Khan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As a result, the dialects are now highly endangered. The dialects exhibit a remarkable diversity of structures. Moreover, the considerable depth of attestation of Aramaic from earlier periods provides evidence for pathways of change. For these reasons the research of Neo-Aramaic is of importance for more general fields of linguistics, in particular language typology and historical linguistics. The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects. They advance the field in numerous ways. In order to allow linguists who are not specialists in Neo-Aramaic to benefit from the papers, the examples are fully glossed.