Compendium of the World's Languages: Ladakhi to Zuni - 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 Compendium of the World's Languages: Ladakhi to Zuni write by George L. Campbell. This book was released on 2000. Compendium of the World's Languages: Ladakhi to Zuni available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents.
Compendium of the world's languages
Compendium of the world's languages - 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 Compendium of the world's languages write by George L. Campbell. This book was released on 2000. Compendium of the world's languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Compendium of the World's Languages: Abaza to Kurdish
Compendium of the World's Languages: Abaza to Kurdish - 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 Compendium of the World's Languages: Abaza to Kurdish write by George L. Campbell. This book was released on 2000. Compendium of the World's Languages: Abaza to Kurdish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents.
And He Knew Our Language
And He Knew Our Language - 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 And He Knew Our Language write by Marcus Tomalin. This book was released on 2011. And He Knew Our Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter. Since this book draws upon recent work in theoretical linguistics, religious history, translation studies, and anthropology, it emphasises the unavoidably interdisciplinary nature of Missionary Linguistics research.
A grammar of Papuan Malay
A grammar of Papuan Malay - 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 Papuan Malay write by Angela Kluge. This book was released on 2016-07-08. A grammar of Papuan Malay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an in-depth linguistic description of one Papuan Malay variety, based on sixteen hours of recordings of spontaneous narratives and conversations between Papuan Malay speakers. ‘Papuan Malay’ refers to the easternmost varieties of Malay (Austronesian). They are spoken in the coastal areas of West Papua, the western part of the island of New Guinea. The variety described here is spoken along West Papua’s northeast coast. Papuan Malay is the language of wider communication and the first or second language for an ever-increasing number of people of the area. While Papuan Malay is not officially recognized and therefore not used in formal government or educational settings or for religious preaching, it is used in all other domains, including unofficial use in formal settings, and, to some extent, in the public media. After a general introduction to the language, its setting, and history, this grammar discusses the following topics, building up from smaller grammatical constituents to larger ones: phonology, word formation, noun and prepositional phrases, verbal and nonverbal clauses, non-declarative clauses, and conjunctions and constituent combining. Of special interest to linguists, typologists, and Malay specialists are the following in-depth analyses and descriptions: affixation and its productivity across domains of language choice, reduplication and its gesamtbedeutung, personal pronouns and their adnominal uses, demonstratives and locatives and their extended uses, and adnominal possessive relations and their non- canonical uses. This study provides a point of comparison for further studies in other (Papuan) Malay varieties and a starting point for Papuan Malay language development efforts.
