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Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
The State of the Art
Av N.J. Enfield, Bernard Comrie
Inbunden, 2015
2060 kr
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The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies address questions of language relatedness, often challenging conventional assumptions about the status …
Murrinhpatha Morphology and Phonology
Inbunden, 2019
2205 kr
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Murrinhpatha is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in a region of tropical savannah and tidal inlets on the north coast of the continent. Some 3000 speakers live mostly in the towns of Wadeye and Nganmarriyanga, though they maintain close ties to their traditional lands, totems and spirit …
Spatial Expression in Caac
An Oceanic Language Spoken in the North of New Caledonia
Inbunden, 2018
1844 kr
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In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal portrait …
Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu
Inbunden, 2016
1844 kr
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This book is a comprehensive grammatical description of the Vurës language, spoken on the island of Vanua Lava, in the Banks group of islands, northern Vanuatu. Vurës is a previously undescribed language, with very few minor published works referring to the language.
Conceptual Transfer as an Areal Factor
Spatial Conceptualizations in Mainland Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2019
2158 kr
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By analyzing conceptual transfer this volume offers new insight in areal linguistics. Mainland Southeast Asia unifies great linguistic richness consisting of numerous languages and countless varieties of genetically diverse language families. Nevertheless, the area is known as a prime example for …
Grammar of Kilmeri
Inbunden, 2018
3111 kr
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This book is a description of Kilmeri, a language of Papua New Guinea, based on the author's fieldwork. The volume is dedicated to the detailed description of form and meaning and their interface, which is supported through extensive illustration by examples. The narrative structure of entire texts …
Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua
Inbunden, 2020
2130 kr
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This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in …
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
The State of the Art
Av N.J. Enfield, Bernard Comrie
Häftad, 2017
443 kr
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The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies address questions of language relatedness, often challenging conventional assumptions about the status …
Grammar of Papapana
An Oceanic Language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 2021
2096 kr
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This monograph is not only the first comprehensive grammar of Papapana (a previously undocumented and under-described endangered language) but the first full reference grammar of any Oceanic language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, despite this region displaying considerable linguistic …
Koromu (Kesawai)
Grammar and Information Structure of a New Guinea Language
Inbunden, 2019
2205 kr
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This book is a grammatical description of Koromu (or Kesawai), an endangered and previously undescribed language in Papua New Guinea's Ramu Valley. Koromu belongs to the Madang subgroup of the putative Trans New Guinea family. The grammar covers the structures of the language, with an emphasis on …
Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap
The Life and Death of a Papuan Language
Inbunden, 2019
2566 kr
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Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. Fewer than fifty speakers actively command it today. …
Noun Phrases in Australian Languages
A Typological Study
Av Dana Louagie
Inbunden, 2019
1844 kr
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This book presents a first comprehensive typological analysis of noun phrases in Australian languages, covering the domains of classification, qualification, quantification, determination and constituency. The analysis is based on a representative sample of 100 languages. Among other points, the …
Grammar of Papapana
An Oceanic Language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Häftad, 2022
412 kr
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This monograph is not only the first comprehensive grammar of Papapana (a previously undocumented and under-described endangered language) but the first full reference grammar of any Oceanic language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, despite this region displaying considerable linguistic …
Murrinhpatha Morphology and Phonology
Häftad, 2020
368 kr
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Murrinhpatha is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in a region of tropical savannah and tidal inlets on the north coast of the continent. Some 3000 speakers live mostly in the towns of Wadeye and Nganmarriyanga, though they maintain close ties to their traditional lands, totems and spirit …
Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap
The Life and Death of a Papuan Language
Häftad, 2021
478 kr
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Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. Fewer than fifty speakers actively command it today. …
Noun Phrases in Australian Languages
A Typological Study
Av Dana Louagie
Häftad, 2021
324 kr
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This book presents a first comprehensive typological analysis of noun phrases in Australian languages, covering the domains of classification, qualification, quantification, determination and constituency. The analysis is based on a representative sample of 100 languages. Among other points, the …
Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua
Häftad, 2022
309 kr
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This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in …
Grammar of Bilinarra
An Australian Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory
Av Felicity Meakins, Rachel Nordlinger
Inbunden, 2013
2374 kr
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Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of …
Grammar of (Western) Garrwa
Av Ilana Mushin
Inbunden, 2012
2060 kr
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Mushin provides the first full grammatical description of Garrwa, a critically endangered language of the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region in Northern Australia. Garrwa is typologically interesting because of its uncertain status in the Australian language family, its pronouns and its word …
Dictionary of Owa
A Language of the Solomon Islands
Av Greg Mellow
Inbunden, 2013
2669 kr
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The Solomon Islands has a rich linguistic heritage of over 60 languages, many of which have not been described in detail. This first dictionary of Owa, a South East Solomonic Language, contains over 3900 entries, which are typically illustrated with examples of natural language. An overview of the …
Dynamics of Nominal Classification
Productive and Lexicalised Uses of Gender Agreement in Mawng
Av Ruth Singer
Inbunden, 2016
1844 kr
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The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawng’s gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement in …
Early Tahitian Poetics
Av David Meyer
Inbunden, 2013
2374 kr
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Tahiti has a rich history of oral tradition. Early visitors to the island transcribed recitations of myth, battle address, and land description. Until now their poetic organization has remained unexplored. From a computationally assisted analysis, this book describes early use of meter and …
Dictionary of Tauya
Inbunden, 2013
2374 kr
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Comprising over 2500 entries, this is the first dictionary available for Tauya, a Trans New Guinea language of the Madang Family. Many entries are accompanied by several examples illustrating the use of these words in natural language. A brief overview of the structure of Tauya is included, …
Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are a group of related "Papuan outliers," which until recently were largely undocumented. This book provides an …
Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham
History, Contact, and Phonology
Av Graham Thurgood, Ela Thurgood m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The …
Grammar of Unua
Inbunden, 2015
2669 kr
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The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Unua has about 700 speakers who are bilinguals using Unua in local interactions and using the national language, Bislama, non-locally, as well as in local public and …
Jarai Clauses and Noun Phrases
Syntactic Structures in an Austronesian Language
Inbunden, 2014
2060 kr
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The first published treatment of the syntax of Jarai, an Austronesian language of Southeast Asia, this volume focuses on the noun phrase and three regions of the clause: the left periphery, inflectional elements, and the verbal domain. Close attention is given to pseudo-cleft questions and serial …
Symmetrical Voice and Linking in Western Austronesian Languages
Inbunden, 2014
1995 kr
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This book is an in-depth study of the voice systems of Totoli, Balinese, Indonesian, and Tagalog, which shows that the symmetrical nature of these systems poses a problem to current linking theories. It provides an analysis of symmetrical linking within two grammatical theories (LFG & RRG) and …
Grammar and Lexicon of Yintyingka
Av Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Bruce Rigsby
Inbunden, 2015
1844 kr
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This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring …
Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar
Inbunden, 2017
2136 kr
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Volume 2 brings together four new sketches of Timor-Alor-Pantar languages. Each sketch is written by specialist linguists on the basis of their own original field work conducted in the last decade. The languages show significant grammatical variation which will be of great interest to typologists …
