Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages – serie
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Ikpana Interrogatives
Av Jason Kandybowicz, Bertille Baron m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1373 kr
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This book documents the interrogative system of Ikpana, an endangered indigenous Ghana-Togo Mountain language of eastern Ghana also known as Logba. The system is notable in several respects. It exhibits features that buck certain typological trends, act as counterexamples to some claims about …
The Algonquian Inverse
Av Will Oxford
Inbunden, 2023
1476 kr
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This book serves as a definitive reference for the inverse morphology of the Algonquian languages, which has attracted much attention in typological and theoretical linguistics. Will Oxford describes the patterning of inverse morphology across the Algonquian family and presents a framework for …
Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee
Inbunden, 2016
2234 kr
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This book examines the tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee, in which six possible pitch patterns can occur on a syllable: low, high, low-high, high-low, lowfall, and superhigh. It provides a comprehensive description and analysis of these patterns, examining their distribution, their source, the …
Archi
Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective
Av Oliver Bond, Greville G. Corbett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2328 kr
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This book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely practised syntactic theories on the basis of the extremely complex agreement system of Archi, an endangered Nakh-Daghestanian language. Even straightforward agreement examples are puzzling for syntacticians because agreement involves both …
Niuean
Predicates and Arguments in an Isolating Language
Av Diane Massam
Inbunden, 2020
1623 kr
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This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean constitutes the perfect testing …
Nominal Contact in Michif
Av Carrie Gillon, Nicole Rosen
Inbunden, 2018
2139 kr
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This book explores the results of language contact in Michif, an endangered Canadian language that is traditionally claimed to combine a French noun phrase with a Cree verb phrase, and is hence usually considered a 'mixed' language. Carrie Gillon and Nicole Rosen provide a detailed account of the …
Barayin Morphosyntax
A Lexical-Functional Approach
Inbunden, 2022
1373 kr
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This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the Guera region of Chad. The core chapters of the book draw on rich empirical data to provide analyses of the basic clause, noun phrases, verb phrases, …
A Semantic Grammar of Kiowa
Inbunden, 2027
1623 kr
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This volume is a theoretically-driven documentation of the semantics of the Kiowa language. It draws on discoveries and concepts from formal semantics to analyze elements of meaning that are not always visible in the morphology. In doing so, it fills crucial gaps in language documentation and …
The Clause-Typing System of Plains Cree
Indexicality, Anaphoricity, and Contrast
Av Clare Cook
Inbunden, 2014
2136 kr
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This book offers detailed empirical coverage of the syntax and semantics of Plains Cree, an Algonquian language of western Canada. It combines careful elicitation with corpus studies to provide the first systematic investigation of the two distinct verbal inflectional paradigms - independent and …
Kayardild Morphology and Syntax
Inbunden, 2012
2941 kr
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This book presents new data and a formal analysis of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Northern Australia. It sets forth arguments for recognizing an intricate syntactic structure that underlies the exuberant distribution of inflectional features …
