A Grammar of Yidin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Yidin write by R. M. W. Dixon. This book was released on 1977-10-06. A Grammar of Yidin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Dixon examines the grammar of Yidin, an Australian dying language, through phonology, syntax and of a 'mixed ergative' type that cannot easily be accommodated in terms of standard syntactic theory.
A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian
A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian write by R. M. W. Dixon. This book was released on 1988. A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standard Fijian, the two differing as much perhaps as do the American and British varieties of English. During 1985, R. M. W. Dixon—one of the most insightful of linguists engaged in descriptive studies today—lived in the village of Waitabu and studied the language spoken there. He found in Boumaa Fijian a wealth of striking features unknown in commonly studied languages and on the basis of his fieldwork prepared this grammar. Fijian is an agglutinating language, one in which words are formed by the profligate combining of morphemes. There are no case inflections, and tense and aspect as shown by independent clitics or words within a predicate complex. Most verbs come in both transitive and intransitive forms, and nouns can be build up regularly from verbal parts and verbs from nouns. The language is also marked by a highly developed pronoun system and by a vocabulary rich in areas of social significance. In the opening chapters, Dixon describes the Islands' political, social, and linguistic organization, outlines the main points of Fijian phonology, and presents an overview of the grammar. In succeeding chapters, he examines a number of grammatical topics in greater detail, including clause and phrase structure, verbal syntax, deictics, and anaphora. The volume also includes a full vocabulary of all forms treated in discussion and three of the fifteen texts recorded from monolingual village elders on which the grammar is based.
A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria
A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria write by Rosa Vallejos. This book was released on 2016-04-08. A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a comprehensive description of Kukama-Kukamiria, spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. The empirical basis for the grammar is fifteen years of fieldwork, including text data from 36 fluent speakers. Seventeen chapters deal with phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse phenomena. Salient typological features include a robust morphological distinction between male and female speech; the expression of TAM categories via fixed clitics; the encoding of three-place predicates by means of transitive clauses; six directive constructions that distinguish degrees of pragmatic force; and multiple types of purpose clauses that differ in terms of coreference control. This grammar also shows the Tupí-Guarani origin of an important number of Kukama-Kukamiria grammatical structures and advances comparative studies in the region.
A Grammar of Warrongo
A Grammar of Warrongo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Warrongo write by Tasaku Tsunoda. This book was released on 2011-12-23. A Grammar of Warrongo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Warrongo is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language that used to be spoken in northeast Australia. This volume is largely based on the rich data recorded from the last fluent speaker. It details the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language. In particular, it provides a truly scrutinizing description of syntactic ergativity - a phenomenon that is rare among the world's language. It also shows that, unlike some other Australian languages, Warrongo has noun phrases that are configurational. Overall this volume shows what can be documented of a language that has only one speaker.
A Grammar of Kambera
A Grammar of Kambera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Kambera write by Marian Klamer. This book was released on 2011-05-12. A Grammar of Kambera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
