The Semantics of Clause Linking - 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 The Semantics of Clause Linking write by R. M. W. Dixon. This book was released on 2009-08-06. The Semantics of Clause Linking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and complement clause constructions. These span a number of types of semantic linking. Three, for example, describe varieties of consequence - cause, result, and purpose - which may be illustrated in English by, respectively: Because John has been studying German for years, he speaks it well; John has been studying German for years, thus he speaks it well; and John has been studying German for years, in order that he should speak it well. Syntactic descriptions of languages provide a grammatical analysis of clause types. The chapters in this book add the further dimension of semantics, generally in the form of focal and supporting clauses, the former referring to the central activity or state of the biclausal linking; and the latter to the clause attached to it. The supporting clause may set out the temporal milieu for the focal clause or specify a condition or presupposition for it or a preliminary statement of it, as in Although John has been studying German for years (the supporting clause), he does not speak it well (the focal clause). Professor Dixon's extensive opening discussion is followed by fourteen case studies of languages ranging from Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's concluding synthesis is provided by Professor Aikhenvald.
A Grammar of Yankunytjatjara
A Grammar of Yankunytjatjara - 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 Yankunytjatjara write by Cliff Goddard. This book was released on 1985. A Grammar of Yankunytjatjara available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Phonology, parts of speech, case and case marking; nominals and the noun phrase; nominalisation, relativisation and subordination; verbal inflection and serial verb construction; verb-stem morphology; negation, interrogative, spatial and temporal qualifiers; sentence connectives and particles; ways of speaking, respect, avoidance, rhetoric, euphemism.
La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics
La Trobe Working Papers in 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 La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics write by . This book was released on 1993. La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea - 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 The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea write by Alexandra Aikhenvald. This book was released on 2010-06-17. The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea and is based entirely on the author's immersion fieldwork. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. Manambu can be considered an endangered language. The Manambu language has many unusual properties. Every noun is considered masculine or feminine. Feminine gender - which is unmarked - is associated with small size and round shape, and masculine gender with elongated shape, large size, and importance. The Manambu culture is centered on ownership of personal names, and is similar to that of the Iatmul, described by Gregory Bateson. After an introductory account of the language and its speakers, Professor Aikhenvald devotes chapters to phonology, grammatical relations, word classes, gender, semantics, number, case, possession, derivation and compounding, pronouns, morphohology, verbs, mood and modality, negation, clause structure, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, the lexicon, current directions of change, and genetic relationship to other languages. The description is presented in a clear style in a framework that will be comprehensible to all linguists and linguistically oriented anthropologists.
A New Grammar of Dyirbal
A New Grammar of Dyirbal - 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 New Grammar of Dyirbal write by R. M. W. Dixon. This book was released on 2022-10-27. A New Grammar of Dyirbal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his detailed work on the language, extending and refining the descriptions in light of more recent theoretical advances. The resulting A New Grammar of Dyirbal offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the language, reanalysed in myriad ways and drawing on an extensive corpus of texts. Among its many new features are further discussion of the applicative/causative derivation; a fresh focus on the role of the pervasive 'pivot', the syntactic linking of S and O functions; a detailed account of the two antipassives and their semantic contrast and phonological conditioning; and an extended account of relative clauses. The volume is accompanied by a companion website hosting the full set of textual data on which the grammar is based, as well as a thesaurus/dictionary of nouns, adjectives, and verbs across ten dialects of Dyirbal.
