Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America - 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 Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America write by Gale Goodwin Gómez. This book was released on 2014-04-17. Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The morphological process of reduplication occurs in languages throughout the world. Reduplication in indigenous languages of South America is the first volume to focus on reduplication in South America. The indigenous languages of South America remain under-documented and little accessible to theoretical linguistics. Most regions and language families of the continent are represented in articles based on recent fieldwork by the authors. Included are data concerning a diverse set of reduplication phenomena from the Andes, Amazonia, and other regions of the continent. A wide range of language families and isolates are discussed, such as Tupian, Quechuan, Mapuche, Tacanan, Arawakan, Barbacoan, and Macro-Jê. Several languages present unusual properties, some of which violate presumed universals, such as no partial without full reduplication.
Word Formation in South American Languages
Word Formation in South American 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 Word Formation in South American Languages write by Swintha Danielsen. This book was released on 2014-11-15. Word Formation in South American Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America. The data for the analyses have been mainly collected in the field by the authors. The several language families described here, among them Arawakan, Takanan, and Guaycuruan, as well as language isolates, such as Yurakaré and Cholón, reflect the linguistic diversity of South America. Equally diverse are the topics addressed, relating to word formation processes like reduplication, nominal and verbal compounding, clitic compounding, and incorporation. The traditional notions of the processes are discussed critically with respect to their implementation in minor indigenous languages. The book is therefore not only of interest to readers with an Amerindian background but also to typologists and historical linguists, and it is a supplement to more theory-driven approaches to language and linguistics.
Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse
Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse - 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 Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse write by Rita Finkbeiner. This book was released on 2018-09-24. Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most scholars define reduplication as a formally restricted grammatical process, neatly distinguishing it from 'mere' repetition as a discoursal option. However, there is a fuzzy grey area between the two processes that has rarely been explored so far. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of exact repetition, understood broadly as the systematic iteration of one and the same linguistic item within relatively close syntactic proximity, is investigated from a number of angles. The volume contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and deals with a broad range of languages, including alleged 'reduplication avoiders'. In bringing together different theoretical perspectives, phenomenological domains, and methodologies, and in linking the fields of syntax and discourse to those of morphology and morphophonology, the volume provides new insights into the structure and meaning of exact repetition phenomena, and, more generally, into their status within a theory of language. The collection will appeal to formally and functionally oriented scholars from all subfields of linguistics, including typology.
Number in the World's Languages
Number 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 Number in the World's Languages write by Paolo Acquaviva. This book was released on 2022-06-21. Number in the World's Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge. This book addresses the challenge with a series of in-depth analyses of number across a typologically diverse sample, unified by a common set of descriptive and analytic questions from a semantic, morphological, syntactic, and discourse perspective. Each case study is devoted to a single language, or in a few cases to a language group. They are written by specialists who can rely on first-hand data or on material of difficult access, and can place the phenomena in the context of the respective system. The studies are preceded and concluded by critical overviews which frame the discussion and identify the main results and open questions. With specialist chapters breaking new ground, this book will help number specialists relate their results to other theoretical and empirical domains, and it will provide a reliable guide to all linguists and other researchers interested in number.
Advances in Contact Linguistics
Advances in Contact Linguistics - 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 Advances in Contact Linguistics write by Norval Smith. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Advances in Contact Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field.
