Author: Kay Williamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521175265
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This 1969 monograph is a descriptive grammar of a dialect of Ịjọor (Ijaw), a language spoken in the Niger Delta area of Southern Nigeria. The dialect described, Kolokuma, is quite widely understood. The most interesting features of the language, on which the monograph concentrates, are its syntax and tonal system.
A Grammar of the Kolokuma Dialect of Ịjọ
Author: Kay Williamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521175265
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This 1969 monograph is a descriptive grammar of a dialect of Ịjọor (Ijaw), a language spoken in the Niger Delta area of Southern Nigeria. The dialect described, Kolokuma, is quite widely understood. The most interesting features of the language, on which the monograph concentrates, are its syntax and tonal system.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521175265
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This 1969 monograph is a descriptive grammar of a dialect of Ịjọor (Ijaw), a language spoken in the Niger Delta area of Southern Nigeria. The dialect described, Kolokuma, is quite widely understood. The most interesting features of the language, on which the monograph concentrates, are its syntax and tonal system.
A Grammar of the Kolokuma Dialect of Ijo
Sierra Leone Language Review
Author:
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Language, Literature and Culture in a Multilingual Society
Author: Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9785431193
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1129
Book Description
The papers here were selected from presentations made at the 24th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) which held at Bayero University Kano. The book contains seventy-seven (77) papers addressing various issues in linguistics, literature and cultures in Nigeria. The book is organized into four sections, as follows: Section One Language and Society; Section Two Applied Linguistics; Section Three Literature, Culture, Stylistics and Gender Studies and Section Four Formal Linguistics.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9785431193
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1129
Book Description
The papers here were selected from presentations made at the 24th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) which held at Bayero University Kano. The book contains seventy-seven (77) papers addressing various issues in linguistics, literature and cultures in Nigeria. The book is organized into four sections, as follows: Section One Language and Society; Section Two Applied Linguistics; Section Three Literature, Culture, Stylistics and Gender Studies and Section Four Formal Linguistics.
Readings in African American Language
Author: Nathaniel Norment
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820478708
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Readings in African American Language: Aspects, Features, and Perspectives, Volume 2 brings together scholars who research various theoretical approaches of the origin, characteristics, and development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). The advantages of AAVE, codeswitching, dialect interference in writing, theories, and politics in AAVE, text analysis, and critical pedagogy all are discussed in this volume. Each article provides a different perspective attesting to the vitality and relevance of African American language as an academic, social, and cultural/linguistic entry in the field of language studies.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820478708
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Readings in African American Language: Aspects, Features, and Perspectives, Volume 2 brings together scholars who research various theoretical approaches of the origin, characteristics, and development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). The advantages of AAVE, codeswitching, dialect interference in writing, theories, and politics in AAVE, text analysis, and critical pedagogy all are discussed in this volume. Each article provides a different perspective attesting to the vitality and relevance of African American language as an academic, social, and cultural/linguistic entry in the field of language studies.
Language at Large
Author: Alexandra Aikhenvald
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004207686
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004207686
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.
The World Atlas of Language Structures
Author: Martin Haspelmath
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199255911
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
"The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) provides ... 142 maps showing the geographic distribution of structural linguistic features"--Intro.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199255911
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
"The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) provides ... 142 maps showing the geographic distribution of structural linguistic features"--Intro.
Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions
Author: Carol Lord
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027276854
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change. The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticalization process is shown to result in the development of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. Strong parallels across languages are found in the meanings of the verbs that become “defective” and in the functions they come to mark. The changes are documented in detail, with examples from a number of languages illustrating the effect of the changes on typology and word order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and aspect, and the relevance of notions such as discourse topic, foreground and transitivity. With respect to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the author has taken a relatively nonpartisan approach, and the discussion is accessible to students of language as well as of interest to theoreticians.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027276854
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change. The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticalization process is shown to result in the development of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. Strong parallels across languages are found in the meanings of the verbs that become “defective” and in the functions they come to mark. The changes are documented in detail, with examples from a number of languages illustrating the effect of the changes on typology and word order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and aspect, and the relevance of notions such as discourse topic, foreground and transitivity. With respect to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the author has taken a relatively nonpartisan approach, and the discussion is accessible to students of language as well as of interest to theoreticians.
Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent
Author: Harry van der Hulst
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110874261
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent Linguistic Models.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110874261
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent Linguistic Models.
Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages
Author: Magnus Huber
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027252548
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027252548
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session