Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra - 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 Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra write by Patience Epps. This book was released on 2023-01-30. Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This handbook provides the first broadly comprehensive, typologically-informed descriptive overview of the languages of Greater Amazonia. Organized by genealogical units, the chapters provide empirically rich descriptions of the phonology and grammar of all Amazonian families and isolates for which data and descriptions exist. Volume 1 focuses on the many isolates of the region – those languages for which no extant sisters can be identified.
Penan Histories
Penan Histories - 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 Penan Histories write by Tim Bending. This book was released on 2021-08-04. Penan Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Penan Histories is an ethnographic examination of the transition from nomadism to agriculture and employment in the timber industry, to protest against that industry, and back once more to working as loggers; a story also of cultural change, collective action and individual corruption.
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case - 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 Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case write by Petra Sleeman. This book was released on 2021-12-06. Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmented in different methodological approaches that hinder the full sharing of cross-theoretic advances; on the other hand, partitive elements have been analyzed in restricted linguistic environments, which would benefit from a broader perspective. The aim of the PARTE project, from which this volume stems, is precisely to bring together linguists of different theoretical approaches using different methodologies to address this notion in its many facets. This volume focuses on Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case in European languages, their emergence and spread in diachrony, their acquisition by L2 speakers, and their syntax and interpretation. The volume is the first to provide such an encompassing insight into the notion of partitivity.
Articles in the World’s Languages
Articles in 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 Articles in the World’s Languages write by Laura Becker. This book was released on 2021-09-20. Articles in the World’s Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world’s languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types according to their referential functions: definite, anaphoric, weak definite, recognitional, indefinite, presentational, exclusive-specific, nonspecific, inclusive-specific, and referential articles. All 10 types are described in detail with examples from various languages of the world. The book also addresses crosslinguistic trends concerning the distribution and the development of different article types, and it proposes a typology of article systems. The aim of this study is to provide a general crosslinguistic overview concerning the attested properties and distributions of articles. It is geared towards readers with interests in language typology and the nominal domain, and it can serve as a point of reference for language-specific studies of articles or determiners.
Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia
Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia - 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 Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia write by Walter Bisang. This book was released on 2020-09-21. Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
